A. W. BRADFORD ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

sioners or Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
and shall, by the next mail, forward a duplicate
certificate of the number of votes cast, the number
cast for each candidate and the office for which cast
to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the particular
county or the Clerk of the Superior Court of Bal-
timore city.

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8. That it shall be the duty of the return Judges
of the several counties, as soon as they shall be
notified of the reception of these returns, and with-
in ten days after such general election was held,
to assemble, as now. required by law, to count the
votes of said counties or the city of Baltimore re-
spectfully, then and there to complete all things
connected with said election as now required by
law,

CHAPTER 125.

Duty of Re-
turn Judges.

AN ACT to heal Deeds of Manumission defec-
tively executed or omitted to be recorded.

Passed March
23, 1866.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That all deeds of manumission ex-
ecuted before the first day of November, eighteen
hundred and sixty-four, and acknowledged by
the party executing the same before a Justice of
the Peace of this State, tinder which the negroes
thereby intended to be manumitted have been in
actual enjoyment of freedom, shall be held to have
the same effect from the time of the execution
thereof as if the same had been attested by two
witnesses and recorded, and had been in other re-
spects in conformity with the then existing pro-
visions of law.

Deeds of
manumission.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That that this act
shall take effect from the time of its passage.

In force.