ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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company Howard zouaves of Baltimore city, said second company

Howard

of the Howard zouaves having already organized into a military

Zouaves.

company in compliance with the general militia law of the State.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.

CHAPTEE 232.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments sections two

and three, of article twenty-one, of the Code of Public General

Laws, title "Conveyancing."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That section two and section three, of article twenty-one, of the

Code of Public General Laws, title "Conveyancing," be and the

Repeall.

same hereby are repealed and thereupon re-enacted to read as fol-

lows, to wit:

2. If acknowledged in the county or city within which the real

estate or any part of it lies, the acknowledgment may be made

before (first) a justice of the peace for such city or county; second,
a judge of the orphans' court of such county or city; third, a

Acknowl-
edgment.

judge of the circuit court for the county; fourth, a judge of the

supreme bench of Baltimore city; fifth, a notary public.

3. If acknowledged within the State, but out of the county or

city wherein the real estate or any part of it lies, the acknowleg-

ment may be made before (first) a notary public; second, any

judge of the circuit court for the circuit in which the grantor
may be; third, a judge of the supreme bench of Baltimore city;

Without
the county

fourth, any justice of the peace for the county or city where the

grantor may be at the time of the acknowledgment, the official

character and genuineness of the signature of the justice being

certified by the clerk of the circuit or superior court under his

official seal.

Approved March 31, 1890.

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