ART. 16.] CHANCERY.

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parties, or any one of them, in the manner or form,
or before the person authorized to take such act or
acknowledgment, the circuit court of a county in
which, by law, the said deed or bill of sale ought to
be or to have been recorded, or the circuit court of
Baltimore city, if the said deed or bill of sale ought,
by law to be or to have been recorded in said city,

may, upon the petition of any party to said deed or
bill of sale, or his or their assigns, or any person
claiming under them, setting forth the defects in the
acknowledgment of said deed or bill of sale, pass an
order directing the other parties thereto to appear and
answer the said petition, and may cause notice to be
given to such parties by summons or publication,
according to the practice of the said court, and may

Petition to cir-
cuit court and
answer, &c.

direct testimony to be taken in relation to the matters
in said petition, or in said petition and answer Con-
tained; and the said court may grant relief upon said
petition by directing the said parties, or any of them,
to acknowledge or to re-acknowledge the said deed or

Testimony.

bill of sale, as the case may require; and the order of
the said court, passed in the premises, directing the
said acknowledgment to be made as aforesaid, shall
operate in the same manner and to the same extent,
from the date of the said order, as if the said party
ordered as aforesaid to acknowledge or re-acknowledge
the said deed or bill of sale, had thereupon so done ;

Order of court.

provided, however, that the rights of any person who
shall not be a party to said proceedings, as aforesaid,
shall not be in any wise affected by said order.

In force and approved March 30, 1868.

Proviso.