EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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Arundel county, shall be fined not less than two dollars and
not more than eight dollars, or shall be imprisioned for not
more than thirty days.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 8, 1906.

CHAPTER 65.

AN ACT to add five sections to Article 21 of the Code of
Public General Laws of 1904, title, "Conveyancing," to
be known as Sections 28 A, 28 B, 28 C, 28 D, 28 E, and to
follow Section 28 of said Article.

CHAP. 64

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That five new sections be and the same are hereby
added to Article 21 of the Code of Public General Laws of
1904, title, "Conveyancing," and to be known as Sections
28 A, 28 B, 28 C, 28 D, 28 E, and to read as follows :

New sections
added.

28 A. A release of a vendor's lien retained in any deed of
conveyance may be made in the following form, or to the like
effect: I hereby release the vendor's lien retained in the
above (or within) deed. Witness my hand and seal this ———
day of [Seal].

How release
shall be
made.

28 B. Such release may be written by the vendor or his,
assignee upon the record in the office where the deed is
recorded, and attested by the clerk of the Court.
28 C. Or such a release may be endorsed on the original

How release
may be
written.

deed by the vendor of his assignee; and upon such deed,
with the release thereon endorsed, being filed in the office in
which the deed is recorded, the clerk shall record such release
at the foot of said deed.

How release
may be
endorsed.

28 D. Every release executed in either of the above modes
shall be construed and deemed sufficient to release said lien
as fully and effectually as any instrument of writing what-
ever could do.

How to be
construed.

28 E. A release or assignment may be made by an execu-
tor or assignee in the same manner and form and with like
effect as by the vendor; this section to apply to every
assignee whether he claims by direct assignment from the
vendor or his executor, or under a series of assignments.

How to be
made.