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Dec. Ses. 1825. |
JOS. KENT, ESQ. GOVERNOR.
any estate or interest in any lands, tenements or hereditaments,
lying and being within this state, shall be without this
state, and within the United States, and shall execute and acknowledge
a deed for the conveying of such estate or interest,
or for declaring or limiting of any use in and for the same, before
any judge of a court of record and of law of the state and
county in which such person or persons may be, or before any
judge of the supreme or circuit or district court of the United
States, and the clerk or prothonotary of such court, shall certify
upon or annex to such deed under his hand and the seal of
his office, that the judge before whom the same may be executed
and acknowledged, is or was at the time of the execution and
acknowledgment thereof, a judge of such court, and such deed
shall be recorded within six calender months from the day of
its date, among the lands records of the county, in which such
lands, tenements or hereditaments may be, such deed shall be
good and effectual for the purpose or purposes therein mentioned. |
Relinquishing
power. |
2. And be it enacted, That if any feme
covert in whom such
estate or interest may be, shall be a party with her husband
executing such deed, (or shall only be relinquishing her right
of dower in or to such estate or interest,) and the judge of such
court aforesaid, before whom the same may be executed and
acknowledged, shall examine her out of the presence and hearing
of her husband, whether she doth make her acknowledgment
of the same voluntarily, and without being induced to do
so by fear or threats of or ill usage by her husband, or by fear
of his displeasure, or to that effect; and the said judge shall endorse
upon or annex thereto his certificate of such examination
and acknowledgment; and such clerk or prothonotary shall certify
as aforesaid; and such deed shall be recorded as aforesaid,
the same shall be good and available for the purposes therein
mentioned, and thereby intended. |
| Recording. |
3. And be it enacted, That the clerks
of the several county
courts of this state are hereby authorised to record any deed or
conveyance executed and authenticated agreeably to the provisions
of this act, in the same manner, and under the same restrictions
as they are authorised to record deeds or conveyances
executed and acknowledged within this state. |
Acts inconsistent
repealed. |
4. And be it enacted, That all acts
or parts of acts heretofore
passed, that may be repugnant to, or inconsistent with the
provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. |
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Passed Feb. 3,
1826. |
CHAPTER 59.
An act to punish such persons as destroy Indexes and Pointers on Public
Roads. |
| Penalty. |
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland,
That all persons who shall wantonly and maliciously impair or |
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