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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of unloading tobacco brought by them; and that ample room shall

always in like manner be allowed on said wharf or pier free from

such charges for the shipment of tobacco from any of the said State

tobacco warehouses.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any lease intended to be

made under the provisions of this act shall be examined and ap-

Covenants

proved by the attorney general of this State before the same is exe-
cuted, and shall contain the clauses and covenants usually con-

tained in leases of property in said city of Baltimore in so far as the

board of public works may deem such clauses and covenants appli-

cable, except a covenant for renewal of said lease.

Effective.

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

from and after the date of its passage.

Approved March 14, 1890.

CHAPTER 120.

AN ACT to make valid deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance

and bills of sale defective in the acknowledgment or in the cer-

tificate thereof.

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

That section eighty-two, of article tAventy-one, of the Code of Pub-

Repeal.

lic General Laws of the State of Maryland, title "Conveyancing," be

and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as

follows :

82. All deeds, mortgages, bonds of conveyance and bills of sale

which have been executed and acknowledged, and are recorded in

Deeds, etc

this State subsequent to the passage of the act of the General As-

sembly of Maryland, passed at the January session, eighteen hun-

dred and fifty-eight, chapter two hundred and eight, which may

not have been acknowledged according to the laws existing at the

time of said acknowledgment, or where the certificate of acknowl-

edgment is not in the prescribed form shall be and the same are

hereby made valid to all intents and purposes as if the said ac-

knowledgment and the certificate thereof had been in legal form ;

provided, that said deeds, mortgages, bonds, of conveyance and bills

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valid.

of sale in other respects are in conformity with the laws; and, pro-
vided further, that nothing in this section shall affect the interest

of bona fide purchasers or creditors without notice who may have

become so previous to the passage of this act.

Effective

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 14, 1890.