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	to the extent of three hundred dollars per annum;
	all sums in excess of said amount to be paid into
	the treasury of the State.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	Effective.
	effect from the date of its passage.
	Approved April 14, 1880.

	CHAPTER 256.
	AN ACT to make valid deeds, mortgages, and other
	conveyances executed and acknowledged since the
	twenty-second day of March, eighteen hundred
	and sixty-seven, before any justice of the peace in
	any county or city in this State, where the grantors
	resided or where the lands or other property are
	situated.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
	bly of Maryland, That all deeds, mortgages and
	other conveyances made and executed in the State
	of Maryland since the twenty-second day of March,
	in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, which	Deeds made
	were executed and acknowledged before any justice	valid.
	of the peace duly commissioned and qualified for
	any county or city in this State, and which deeds,
	mortgages and other conveyances were recorded in
	the county or city where the lands or other property,
	in whole or in part, are situated, shall have the same
	effect and operations in law, and be as valid to all
	intents and purposes, as if the justice of the peace before whom the same was acknowledged was, at
	the time of such acknowledgment, a justice of the
	peace duly commissioned and qualified according to
	taw for the county or city in which the lands or other
	property were situated, or in which the grantors in
	such deed, mortgage or other conveyance resided,
	saving and reserving the rights of creditors and bona
	fide purchasers, without notice.