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Passed March
8,1866.
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AN ACT to add a new section to Article twenty-
four of the Code of Public General Laws enti-
tled "Conveyancing," to provide for the execu-
tion, acknowledgment and recording of bonds
of conveyance and other obligations to convey
real estate and to make valid such instruments
as may have been heretofore executed, acknow-
ledged and recorded.
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Section in-
serted.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the following section be
inserted in Article twenty-four of the Code of
Public General Laws entitled, "Conveyancing,"
next after section twenty-seven of said Article.
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Certified copy
to be received
as evidence.
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Every bond, writing, obligatory or contract for
the conveyance of real estate or any interest or
estate of, in, or relating to real estate, and every
bond, writing, obligatory or contract fpr the leas-
ing and demising for any term of years of real
estate, may be executed, acknowledged and re-
corded in the same manner as deeds of real estate
are required by this Article to be executed, ac-
knowledged and recorded, and as if such bonds,
writings, obligatory and contracts, were deeds as
aforesaid ; and a certified, copy of the record of any
such bond, writing, obligatory or contract, shall be
received as evidence of such bond, writing, obliga-
tory or contract, as fully as a like copy of the
record of any such deed duly executed, acknow-
ledged and recorded in the manner aforesaid,
would be evidence of such deed.
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