GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1831.

Section I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That all deeds heretofore made, or hereafter to be

CHAP. 205

made, which have been or shall be executed and ackowl-
edged by any feme covert, in the manner pointed out in the
third section of the said act of December session, eighteen
hundred and thirty, before any Governor, chief magistrate,
judge, court of justice, mayor, commissioners, or other
tribunal, or person or persons, who by any law of this state
in force at the time of passing the said act, or by the first
or second sections of the said act, was or were authorised
and empowered to take the acknowledgement of such feme
covert, or of her husband, to such deed, shall be as valid
and effectual, as if the same had been executed and acknowl-
edged before any of the judges or justices mentioned in the

Deeds in certain
cases confirmed

third or fourth sections of the said act; Provided, that all
the other provisions of the said act shall have been compli-
ed with, except that the acknowledgement of the feme eo.
vert, may be either in the form set out in that allowed by
the fourth section of the act of eighteen hundred and seven,
chapter fifty-two.

Proviso.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That all deeds heretofore made,
or hereafter to be made, which have been or shall be ac-
knowledged by any feme covert, in the form pointed out
and allowed in the fourth section of an act, entitled, An act
for quieting possessions, and securing and confirming the
estates of purchasers, passed at November session, eighteen
hundred and seven, chapter fifty-two; shall be good and ef-
fectual, any law to the contrary notwithstanding; Provided,
that in all other respects, the said deeds shall have been ex-
ecuted and acknowledged, and recorded, agreeably to law,
except so far as the same may be dispensed with by a for-
mer section of this act.

Acknowledgments
of feme coverts ac-
cording to act of
1807, ch. 52, con-
firmed.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That all writing obligatory, or
contracts for conveyances of lands or tenements, or of any
interest or estate of, in, or relating to, lands or tenements,
or hereditaments, and all writings obligatory or contracts
for the leasing and demising, for any term of years, of lands
or tenements may, if executed and acknowledged in manner
as is directed by the acts of assembly made and provided in
case of conveyances of lands, and as if such writings obli-
gatory or contracts, were conveyances as aforesaid, be re-
corded among the land records of the county where such
lands or tenments, or hereditaments shall lie, and a certified
copy of the seal of the county court of said county, of such
record, shall be received as, evidence, as fully and to the
same effect, of such writing obligatory or contract, as a
like copy of the record of any such conveyance, executed

Obligation to con-
vey estate, to be
recorded.