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contained in this act shall be construed to impair or

affect in any manner any right or rights whatever of

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any contiguous or adjacent riparian proprietor.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.

Chapter 165.

AN ACT to provide for the recording of authenti-

cated copies of last Wills and Testaments of which

the originals and the original were destroyed by the

burning of the Court House of Dorchester county,

in the month of May, in the year eighteen hundred

and fifty-two.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the register of wills of Dorchester

county be and he is hereby authorized and directed,

upon application, and at the expense of any person

interested, to record in a well-bound book used or kept

in his office for that purpose, the copy of any last will

and testament, or of the record thereof, together with

all the certificates thereon, which appear to have been

Copy last will

duly made and certified under the official seal of the

and testament.

office of the register of wills of said county prior to

the burning of the court house of said county in the

month of May, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-

two; and the said register shall, on the back of said

copy, when recorded, make an endorsement of the

recording thereof, and of the page or folio of the book

in which the same shall have been recorded.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That whenever any such

copy shall be filed for record in the office of the regis-

ter of wills of the county aforesaid, the said copy shall

thereafter be retained and preserved in said office, and

How filed.

filed as original last wills and testaments are filed, and

duly certified copies of the same, or of the record

thereof, shall be evidence to all intents and purposes

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