ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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county, on a certified copy of said judgment under seal of the said

court.

SEC. 224 J. If the court shall ratify and confirm the sale, said

ratification shall be deemed and taken as conclusive evidence of

Ratifica-

the sufficiency and regularity of the notice required as aforesaid

tion of
sale.

and manner of making said sale, and the return and proceedings

ahall be recorded as if the judgment had been rendered in said

court.

SEC. 224 K. A deed of bargain and sale duly executed and

acknowledged by any constable or sheriff, or other officer for any

real estate, leasehold property or. any interest therein, or relating

to, or growing out of any lands, tenements or leasehold property

sold by virtue of any execution issued on any judgment of a

Officers to

justice of the peace under this act shall be good and effectual to

execute

transfer and convey to any purchaser, his heirs, executors, admin-

istrators or assigns, any right or estate to or in the premises which

by such grantees may be legally acquired under and by virtue of

any such sale; provided, such sale be ratified and confirmed

agreeably to law.

SEC. 224 L. If any constable, sheriff or other officer shall sell

any lands, tenements or leasehold property or any interest therein,

and shall die or remove beyond the limits of the said county

without executing a deed of conveyance to the purchaser thereof,

the judge of the circuit court for said county, on application by

Court may

petition in writing by the purchaser or his legal representatives,

appoint.

may appoint some person to execute and deliver the deed to the

purchaser, or his heirs, administrators or assigns, for the lands,

tenements or leasehold property or any interest therein so sold,

and such deed, if the sale has been confirmed by the court shall

be as valid as if executed by the officer who made the sale.

Approved April 8, 1890.

CHAPTER 616.

AN ACT to incorporate the Berlin and Lovettsville bridge com-

pany, for the purpose of constructing and owning a bridge at

Berlin, Frederick county, Maryland, across the Potomac river

to London county, yirginia.

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

That Daniel Baker, jr., Douglas H. Hargett, Daniel E. Keafauver,

John C. Hotter and William G. Baker of Frederick county, Mary-
land, their associates, successors and assigns, and such other per-

Body cor-

sons as may hereafter be associated with them as stockholders, be

porate.

and they are hereby created a body corporate and politic by the