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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

this act is declared to be a public act, and shall be construed f av-

orably for every beneficial purpose therein contained, but it shall

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not be construed to confer upon this company any right to make-

cable

any contract or to accept or execute any trust whatever which it

would not be lawful for natural persons under the general laws,

rules of law which are or shall be in force, to make, execute or

accept.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That the legislature shall have

power at any time hereafter, to repeal, alter or modify this act,

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and that this act shall take effect from the date of its passage ;

provided, the provisions of this act shall apply only to Harford

county notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding sections.

Approved April 8, 1890.

CHAPTER 599.

AN ACT to provide for the transmission to the commissioner of

the land office of extracts from certain records in the office of

the clerk of the circuit court for Prince George's county.

WHEREAS, it has been made known to this General Assembly

of Maryland, that for a number of years, from eighteen hunared

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and twenty-seven to the year eighteen hundred and forty-four,

and from eighteen hundred and forty-seven to eighteen hundred

and seventy-nine, excepting eighteen hundred and sixty-one and

eighteen hundred and sixty-two, there has been an omission on

the part of several of the former clerks for Prince George's county

to make out and send extracts of deeds to the clerk of the court

of appeals, as was provided for by sections fifty-four and fifty-five,

of article eighteen, of the Code of Public General Laws; and,

WHEREAS, it is important that such extracts of the deeds re-

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corded in said office, as have been so omitted, should be made out

and sent to the commissioner of the land office, as is now provided

by law; and,

WHEREAS, the deeds of most recent date are the most import-

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ant, it is desirable to begin to copy and transmit those of most

recent date; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the clerk of the circuit court for Prince George's county be

and he is hereby directed to make out and send to the commis-

Extract of

sioner of the land office, extracts of the deeds now recorded in the

deeds.

office of the said clerk, which have been omitted by the former

clerks, in the manner now provided for by law, beginning at the

end of the term of William H. Jarboe, as clerk of said court, in

the year eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and proceeding back-