THOMAS W. VEAZEY, 'ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

na made his last will and testament, and devised the said

lands or real estate to his two sons, William and Thom-

CHAP. 160.

as, charged with the payment of certain legacies to the

other children and grandchildren of the said Susanna

and Solomon, that it has been discovered since the

death of said Susanna and Solomon that an error

was committed by the Justices of the Peace who

took the acknowledgment of the said Susanna, to

the first deed herein before mentioned, by omit-

ting to certify the private examinations of the said

Susanna separate and apart from her husbahd as re-

quired by law; and whereas, it is further represented

that great inconvenience and injustice would result, if

the said deed is not confirmed and made valid, so as to

carry fully into effect the intention of all said parties;

and whereas, it is right and just that omissions of mere

matter of form by the State officers, in the discharge

of their official duties, should not be used to the preju-

dice of the rights of those confiding in the accuracy of

said officers: — Therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Deed confirmed

Maryland, That the said deed of bargain and sale from

Solomon Shepherd and Susanna Shepherd his wife, to

the said William Shepherd, executed and acknowledg-

ed on the twenty ninth day of March, in the year eigh-

teen hundred and thirteen, and recorded in Liber W.

R. Number forty-four, folios fifty, fifty-one, and fifty-

two, one of the land records of Frederick county, be

and the same is hereby declared to be as valid and op-

erative as if the said deed had been duly acknowledged

by the said Susanna Shepherd, separate and apart

from and out of the hearing of her said husband, and as

if the justices of the peace before whom the same was

acknoweledged, had certified that the said deed was ack-

nowledged before them by the said Susanna Shepherd,

separate and apart from and out of the hearing of her

said husband, and that she had declared that she had

made such acknowledgment freely and voluntarily.