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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
CHAPTER 143.

Passed Feb.
23, 1864.

AN ACT to make valid the acknowledgment of a
deed from Daniel A. Leatherman, and Marga-
ret, his wife, to Charles Broadwaters, of Wil-
liam,

Made valid
and effectual.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the acknowledgment of the
deed made by Daniel A. Leatherman, and Marga-
ret, his wife, to Charles Broadwaters, of William,
before James Shultz, a Justice of the Peace of
Hampshire county, Virginia, bearing date upon
the twelfth day of March, eighteen hundred and
sixty-one, and recorded upon the twenty-eighth day
of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, in Liber
H. R., number, nineteen, folio five hundred and
thirteen and five hundred and fourteen, one of the
land records of Allegany county, be as valid and
effectual in law as if the said acknowledgment bad
been made before an officer authorized by law to
take such acknowledgment.

In force.

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

CHAPTER 144.

Passed Feb.
27, 1864.

AN ACT to incorporate the "Board of Beneficence
of St. John's Independent Methodist Protestant
Church, in the city of Baltimore."

Incorporated.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That John Clark, Thomas Owings,
M. D., D. C. H. Emory, John Mahony, Charles
W. Ridgeley, Samuel R. Smith, Samuel Guest,
Alexander Gaddess and William L. Ricbardson,
and their successors, are hereby constituted and
declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the
name, style and title of the "Board of Beneficence