ART. 79] RELEASES AND RECEIPTS. 177,5

chasers, or his or their assigns, as if the same were still held
and owned by the State of Maryland.

NOTE —By the act of 1904, ch. 426, the board of public works are
authorized to collect the insurance upon State tobacco warehouses Nos. 1
and 2 destroyed in the are of February 7 and 8,1904, to place the same to the
credit of the tobacco warehouse fund, and to either rebuild a modern
warehouse on the present site of the destroyed warehouses and the
property adjacent thereto owned by the State, or to sell said property or to
lease the same for such sum as they may think right and build a new
tobacco warehouse in some other locality in Baltlmore city to be selected
by the board.

ARTICLE LXXIX.

RELEASES AND RECEIPTS.

1 To executors, administrators and guardians; where to be recorded. 2. Where and before whom to be acknowledged within this State; how certified. 3. Out of this State; how and be- fore whom to be acknowl- edged. 4. May be executed by an attorney duly authorized by power of attorney. 5. Power of attorney where to be recorded.

6. Releases to be retained by legis- ter of wills. 7. To trustees from residents of this State duly acknowledged, may be recorded in the office of the clerk or register. 8. To trustees from non-residents, may be recorded in like manner. 9. Certified copies to be evidence. 10. Releases of females over eigh- teen years of age to be valid.

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, adminis-
trator, 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 hereinafter directed, may be recorded in the
office of the register of wills of the county where letters testa-
mentary 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.

Pottenger's Exr. v. Stewart, 3 H. & J. 347. Davis v. Jacquin, 5 H. & J.
100. Lowe v. Gist, 5, H. & J. 106, (note.) Crapsterv. Griffith, 6 H & J 144.