GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1851.

eight; And whereas, it appears, that the said John Limkins,
On the second day of September, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and twenty, made a deed of
mortgage, to William Lemar, for the whole of said lot,
number two thousand five hundred and eighty, and for said
part of said lot, number two thousand one hundred and
ninety eight; And whereas, it appears, that the aforesaid
deeds of bargain and sale were executed, acknowledged
and recorded, according to the laws of this state, but inas-
much as the said Thomas Johnson, did not obtain a patent
from this state, for said lots of land, the title of his gran-
tees under the aforesaid deeds of bargain and sale is doubt-
ful—Therefore,

CHAP. 194.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That the title intended to be made by the said
Thomas Johnson, to said John Limkins, and by the said
John Limkins, to the said William Lemar, by the deeds re-
cited and referred to in the preamble of this act, to lot
number two thousand five hundred and eighty, and to part
of lot number two thousand one hundred and nighty-eight,
shall take effect from the date of said deeds, be confirmed
and made good and valid to all intents and purposes what-
soever, in the same manner, and with the same effect and
legal operation, in all courts of law or equity in this state,
as if the said Thomas Johnson, had obtained a patent for
said lots of land regularly issued from the Land office of
this state, before he made the said deed of bargain and sale
to the said John Limkins.

Deed confirmed.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That all the right, title, inter-
est and estate of this state, to said lot number two thousand
five hundred and eighty, and to said part of said lot, num-
ber two thousand one hundred and ninety-eight, as men-
tioned and intended to be conveyed in said deeds, is forever
relinguished, and vested in said William Lemar, the said
last grantee, under said Thomas Johnson, as fully and ef-

States right relin-
quished.

fectually as it would have been vested in him, if the said
Thomas Johnson had obtained a patent for the said lots, out
of the Land office of this state, before said deeds were ex-
ecuted.

Vested.

CHAPTER 194.

An act for the relief of John A. Stanbery, of the city of
Baltimore.

Passed Feb 25,1832

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the commissioners of Insolvent Debtors for the city and

Benefit extended.