ELIHU B. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTEE 397.

AN ACT to make valid and effectual sundry judgments rendered

and entered up by Edward S. Harrison, (now deceased,) late a

justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for Talbot

county.

WHEREAS, Edward S. Harrison, (now deceased,) late a justice

of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for Talbot county,

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while filling said office and exercising the duties thereof, rendered

and entered upon his docket sundry judgments which he failed

to attest by appending his name thereto as required by law; and

WHEREAS, said docket with the judgments so rendered up and

entered thereon has been returned to the clerk's office of said

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county and is now in the care and custody of the clerk of the

circuit court for said county; and

WHEREAS, great loss and confusion may ensue unless such

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failure so to attest said judgments as required is cured; therefore

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

That the judgments rendered up and entered by Edward S. Har-

rison, (now deceased,) late a justice of the peace for Talbot county,

Maryland, while filling said office and exercising the duties thereof
on his docket now in the clerk's office of Talbot county aforesaid,
and in the care and custody of the clerk of the circuit court for

Talbot county, and which said judgments the said Edward S.

Harrison failed to attest by appending his name thereto as jus-

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tice of the peace as required by law, be and the same are hereby

valid.

made valid and effectual to all intents and purposes whatsoever

as if the same had been properly signed and attested by him, and

the clerk of said court is hereby authorized to issue copies of

said judgments whenever required, attested by him as taken and

copied from the docket of Edward S. Harrison, as justice of the

peace as aforesaid, and that said copies so attested by said clerk

shall be held and considered valid and effectual for all purposes

whatsoever as if said judgments had been signed and attested on

the docket by said Edward S. Harrison as justice of the peace.

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

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the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.