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to be executed, acknowledged and recorded, and as if such
bonds, writings obligatory and contracts were deeds as afore-
said; and a certified copy of the record of any such bond,
writing obligatory or contract shall be received as evidence of
such bond, writing obligatory or contract, as fully as a like
copy of the record of any such deed duly, executed, acknowl-
edged and recorded in the manner aforesaid would be evidence
of such deed.

Mortgages.

1888, art. 21, sec. 29. 1860, art. 24, sec. 28. 1856, ch. 154, sec. 111.
29. Deeds of mortgage conveying any use, estate, or interest
in land shall be executed, acknowledged and recorded as
absolute deeds of the same.

Aldridge v. Weems, 2 G. & J. 36 Gill v. Griffith, 2 Md. Ch. 270. McKim

v. Mason, 3 Md. Ch. 186. Alderson v. Ames, 6 Md. 52. Fouke v. Fleming,
13 Md. 392. Cockey v. Milne's Lessee, 16 Md. 200 Dorn v. Bayer, 16 Md.
145. Denton v. Griffith, 17 Md. 305. Carrico v. Farmers & Merchants'
Bank, 33 Md. 235. Sixth Ward Bldg. Ass'n v. Wilson, 41 Md. 506. Frost-
burg M. B. Ass'n v. Brace, 51 Md. 510.

Ibid. sec. 30. 1860, art. 24, sec. 29 1856, ch. 154, sec. 112. 1896, ch. 120.
1898, ch. 49. 1898, ch. 275. 1898, ch. 501. 1900, ch. 81. 1902, ch. 26.

1902, ch. 102.

30. No mortgage shall be valid except as between the
parties thereto, unless there be endorsed thereon an oath or
affirmation of the mortgagee that the consideration in said
mortgage is true and bona fide as therein set forth; and unless
there be endorsed on all mortgages executed since March 27,
1902, the following additional oath or affirmation, to wit: " that
the mortgagee has not required the mortgagor, his agent or
attorney, or any person for the said mortgagor to pay the tax
levied upon the interest covenanted to be paid in advance, nor

will he require any tax levied thereon to be paid by the mort-
gagor or any person for him during the existence of this
mortgage." This affidavit may be made at any time before the
mortgage is recorded, before any one authorized to take the
acknowledgment of a mortgage, and the affidavit shall be
recorded with the mortgage.

Waters v. Dashiell, 1 Md. 455. Charles v Clagett, 3 Md. 82. Fouke v.
Fleming, 13 Md. 392. Cockey v. Milne's Lessee, 16 Md. 207. Nelson v.
Hagerstown Bank, 27 Md. 51. Phillips v. Pearson, 27 Md. 242. Lester v.
Hardesty, 29 Md. 50. Johnson v. Canby, 29 Md. 211. Carson v. Phelpi, 40
Md 73. Marlow v. McCubbin, 40 Md. 132. Smith v Myers, 41 Md. 425.

Sixth Ward Bld'g Ass'n v. Wilson, 41 Md 506. Snowden v. Pitcher, 45
.Md. 260. Riswickv Goodhue, 50 Md. 61. Harrison v. A. & E. R. R. Co.,