ART. 79]

RELEASES AND RECEIPTS.

1779

ARTICLE LXXIX.

RELEASES AND RECEIPTS.

1. To executors, administrators and guardians; where to be recorded. 2. Where and before whom to be ac- knowledged within this state ; how certified. 3. Out of this state; how and before whom to be acknowledged. 4. May be executed by an attorney duly authorized by power of at- torney. 5. Power of attorney where to be re- corded.

6. Releases to be retained by register of wills. 7. To trustees from residents of this state duly acknowledged, may be recorded in the office of the clerk or register. 8. No trustees from non-residents, may be recorded in like manner. 9. Certified copies to be evidence. 10. Releases of females over eighteen years of age to be valid.

1904, art. 79, sec. 1. 1888, art. 79, sec. 1. 1860, art. 79, sec. 1. 1809, ch. 168,
secs. 1. 2. 1829, ch. 216, sec. 7. 1831, ch. 305, secs. 3-5.

1. Any release or receipt executed to any executor, administrator,
or guardian by any person authorized to execute the same, (and any
female over eighteen years of age is hereby authorized to execute the
same,) which shall be acknowledged and certified as herinafter directed,
may be recorded in the office of the register of wills of the county where
letters testamentary or of administration were granted, or where the
guardian was appointed or gave bond; and a copy of the record, under
seal, of such release or receipt shall be evidence of such release or
receipt.

Under this section a female eighteen years old may execute a release to
a party who had been her guardian but who had been removed, a new one
being appointed in his place. McClellan v. Kennedy, 8 Md. 230.

While releases of females eighteen years old to their guardians are valid
under this section, such releases do not discharge from liability a third
party holding funds in the character of trustee; nor does a release to an
executor discharge a trustee. Hanson v. Worthington, 12 Md. 440.

For cases referring to the act of 1809, ch. 168, see Warner v. Hardy, G
Md. 537; Carroll v. Tyler, 2 H. & G. 57; Fouke v. Fleming, 13 Md. 392.

Cited but not construed in Greenwood v. Greenwood, 28 Md. 385; McClellan
v. Kennedy, 3 Md. Ch. 252; Waring v. Waring, 2 Bl. 674.
See art. 93, sections 142 and 193.

additional buildings for various state institutions and for the purchase of land
for a hospital for negro Insane. The details of the loan are provided for, ana
a state tax of one per cent, directed to be levied to meet the interest and create
a sinking fund—see art. 31, sec. 14, et seq.

By the act of 1910, ch. 206 Cp. 243), the board of public works was authorized
to sell the stock held by the state in the Easton National Bank.

By the act of 1910, ch. 195 (p. 243), the board of public works was authorized
to purchase or condemn the bed of an alley in Baltimore city running from
Conway street to Perry street, and adjacent to, and parallel with, Light street,
in the city of Baltimore, together with all easements in and to the same.