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for the payment thereof, for the amount of such deficiency; pro-
vided, the mortgagee or his legal or equitable assignee would be
entitled to maintain an action at law upon the covenants con-
tained in the mortgage for said residue of said mortgage debt so
remaining unpaid and unsatisfied by the proceeds of such sale or
sales; which decree shall have the same effect and be a lien as
in the case of a judgment at law, and may be enforced only in
like manner by a writ of execution in the nature of a writ of
fieri facias or by attachment or otherwise.

1892, ch. 392.

25. The title to all promissory notes, other instruments here-
after made and debts hereafter contracted, secured by mort-
gages or deeds in the nature of a mortgage shall from and after
the maturity of such notes, other instruments or debts be con-
clusively presumed to be vested in the person, persons, or body
corporate holding the record title to such mortgage or deed in
the nature of a mortgage, and if such mortgage or deed in the
nature of a mortgage is duly released of record, the promissory
note, other instruments or debt secured by such mortgage or
deed in the nature of a mortgage shall after the maturity of such
promissory notes, other instruments or debt be conclusively pre-
sumed to be paid, so far as any lien upon the property conveyed
by said mortgage, or deed in the nature of a mortgage is con-
cerned.
Demuth v. Old Town Bank, 85 Md. 323.

ARTICLE LXVIII.

NOTARIES PUBLIC.

2. Bond of notary.

Number of notaries in each county.

1894, ch. 412.

2. Each notary public shall, within thirty days from the time
of his appointment, give the bond prescribed in section 24 of
article 35 of the code of public general laws; and each county