WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

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SECTION 15 G. Any person violating the provisions

of section 15 A or 35 B shall pay a fine of not less

than ten nor more than twenty dollars for each

offence upon conviction before any magistrate having
jurisdiction in this State, or upon failure to pay such

Fine for vio-
lating.

fine and costs, shall be imprisoned in the county jail

for not less than ten nor more than thirty days,

provided that the right of appeal to the Circuit

Courts for the counties shall be reserved to all par-

ties under the provisions of this act.

SECTION 15 H. This act shall apply to the Potomac

Where to ap-

river and tributaries only above what is commonly

ply.

known as the " Little Falls" of the Potomac.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from the date of

Effective.

its passage.

Approved May 3, 1882.

Chapter 441.

AN ACT to remedy and give effect to informal and

invalid deeds and mortgages, and to give title and

possession thereunder in Worcester county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That all deeds of conveyance

and mortgages for and upon property in Worcester

county which may have been recorded without any

certificate of the clerk of any of the courts of this

State accompanying the acknowledgment thereof, in

cases in which such certificates are necessary and

proper, certifying to the official character of the

justice of the peace taking the same; and all deeds

of conveyance and mortgages of property in said

Declared to
be valid.

Worcester county which have been recorded in said

county, 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 in that

State, be and the same are hereby declared to be

valid to all intents and purposes as if such defect

and omission did not exist; provided that the execu-

tion and acknowledgment of such deeds and mort-