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	without any certificate of the clerk of any of the	Without cer-
	courts of this State accompanying the acknowledg-	tificate.
	ment thereof, in cases in which such certificates are
	necessary and proper, certifying to the official char-
	acter and signature of the justice of the peace tak-
	ing the same, and all deeds of conveyance of prop-
	erty in this State which may have been recorded
	without the seal of the notary public before whom
	the acknowledgment was taken, having been first
	attached, when the grantor resided in another State,
	and the acknowledgment was made im that State, be
	and the same are hereby declared to be valid to all	Declared
	intents and purposes, as if such defect and omission	valid.
	did not exist ; provided that the execution and ac-
	knowledgment of such deeds in all other respects
	conformed to the laws of this State, in such cases	Conformed
	made and provided, saving, nevertheless, the rights	to the laws
	of bona fide purchasers and incumbrances without
	notice, also excepting such as are now in suit pend-
	ing in courts of law or equity.
	Approved March 27, 1878.

	CHAPTER 117.
	AN ACT to create a new election district in Mont-
	gomery county, to be known as Mechanicville
	district, number eight, or the eighth election dis-
	trict of Montgomery county.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly
	of Maryland, That a new election district be formed
	and laid out in Montgomery county, composed of
	portions of the first and fifth election districts of
	said county, to be known as Mechanicsville district, number eight, or the eighth election district of Mont-	Eighth elec- tion district.
	gomery county, whose metes and bounds shall be as	Metes and
	follows : Beginning at Brown's bridge, on the Pa-	bounds.
	tuxent river, and following the county road known
	as the limekiln road to its crossing of Ashton and
	Coalsville turnpike, then with the continuation of