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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all deeds, mort-

gages and other conveyances executed and acknow-

ledged by the grantors since the twenty-second day

of March, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-

seven, in the county or city in this State in which

the grantors then resided, before any other justice of

Deeds made

the peace of any other county or city in this State

valid

duly commissioned and qualified, shall be as valid to

all intents and purposes as if acknowledged in the

county or city where the lands or other property, in

whole or in part, are situate, before a justice of the

peace of said county or city, or as if acknowledged

before a justice of the peace of the county or pity in
which the grantors resided, saving and reserving the

rights of creditors and bona fide purchasers without

notice; this act, however, not to avail, nor to be plead-

ed, nor given in evidence, nor in any manner to effect

pending litigation.

Approved April 10, 1880.

CHAPTER 257.
AN ACT to refund to James W. White, late sheriff

of Carroll county, a certain sum of money erro-

neously paid into the treasury.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the Treasurer of the State

be and he is hereby authorized and directed, upon

the warrant of the Comptroller, to pay James W.

Pay on war-

White, late sheriff of Carroll county, the sum of

rant.

twenty-four dollars and ninety-nine cents, being the

sum the said James W. White has erroneously paid

into the treasury, the same having been recom-

mended by the officers of the treasury department.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 14, 1880.