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LAWS OF MA.RYLA.ND.

Chapter 15.

AN ACT to repeal sections seven, eight and nine

of article seventy-nine of the Code of Public

General Laws, entitled " Receipts and Releases,"

and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. JSe if enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That sections seven, eight and

nine of article seventy-nine of the Code of Public

Repealed and

General Laws, entitled " Receipts and Releases,"

be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted

to read as follows :

SEC. 7. All receipts, releases and final discharges

from persons residing in this State authorized to

execute the same, to any trustee appointed by any

court of equity, by deed or by will (and any female

over the age of eighteen years is hereby authorized

to execute the same for the proceeds of the sale of

real estate or leasehold property), which shall have

been or may hereafter be acknowledged before any

officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of

Receipts, &c.,
to be recorded

deeds of real estate, may be recorded, and the clerk

of the court by which said trustee was appointed

or in which the deed was recorded or trust exe-

cuted, or the register of wills in whose office the

will was recorded, shall record the same in a well

bound book to be kept for that purpose.

SEC. 8. Any receipt, release or final discharge

from any person authorized to execute the same to

any trustee as mentioned in the preceding section.

and any female over the age of eighteen years is

hereby authorized to execute the same to any trus-

May be re-

tee for the proceeds of the sale of real estate or

ceived and re-
corded.

leasehold property, heretofore or hereafter acknowl-

edged, by any non-resident of this State, before any

officer authorized to take acknowledgments to deeds

of real estate, and certified as required for deeds

of real estate, may be received and recorded by

such clerk or register.

SEC. 9. A copy of such receipt, release or final

discharge which shall have been or may hereafter

Admitted as

be acknowledged and recorded as directed in either

evidence.

of the preceding sections, duly attested under the