DEEDS, WILLS, JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS, &c. 103

GEORGE E. WHITTINGTON.

AN ACT to make valid an instrument of writing from George P. Leatherbury and
Virginia Leatherbury, his wife.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly, That on the
seventeenth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, George
P. Leatherbury and Virginia Leatherbury, his wife, of Somerset
county, Maryland, did execute an instrument of writing, designed to
operate as a deed in fee simple, to George E. Whittington as grantee,
of said county, for a tract and parcel of land, containing fourteen
acres, more or less, particularly described in said instrument, for the
consideration of thirteen hundred dollars; and whereas, the name
of George E. Whittington was inadvertently omitted in said instru-
ment as grantee for said George P. Leatherbury and Virginia Leath-
erbury, his wife; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the instrument of writing, signed, sealed, executed and acknow-
ledged on the seventeenth day of December, eighteen hundred and
sixty-one, by George P. Leatherbury and Virginia Leatherbury, his
wife, before Smith Lankford, as a Justice of the Peace of the State of
Maryland, for Somerset county, is hereby made operative to convey a
fee simple estate to said George E. Whittington from George P. Leather-
bury and Virginia Leatherbury, his wife, in as full and ample a manner
as if the name of George E. Whittington had been inserted as grantee
therein at the execution and acknowledgment thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said instrument shall be recorded
as a deed by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Somerset county, and
that this act shall take effect from the day of to passage.