A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

compensation for his services such sum as the Com-
missioners may deem proper, not exceeding three
hundred dollars; the said clerk is authorized and
is hereby empowered to administer an oath or
affirmation to any account not before probated to
any person presenting a claim to the Commis-
sioners against the county, but nothing in this
section shall be construed to empower the Clerk to
administer the oath or affifmation in any other
place than in his office; he shall be allowed the
usual fee of a Justice of the Peace for the same
service.

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

In force.

CHAPTER 256.

AN ACT to make valid a deed from Charles H.
Carroll, of the State of New York, to William
T. Carrol], of Washington city, District of Co-
lumbia.

Passed Mar.
10, 1864.

WHEREAS, Charles Carroll, of the State of New
York, died seized and possessed of certain real
estate lying partly in Washington county, Dis-
trict of Columbia, and partly in the counties of
Montgomery and Prince George's, Maryland; and
whereas, Charles H. Carroll, of the State of New
York, in his own right and as executor of the last
will and testament of the said Charles Carroll, de-
ceased, did convey said real estate to William T.
Carroll, of Washington city, District of Columbia,
by deed bearing date the twenty-second day of Oc-
tober, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and re-
corded in Liber J. A. S., number one hundred
and seventy-three, folios six and seven, one of
the land records of Washington county, District
of Columbia, and also was recorded in Liber J. G.
H., number eight, folios seventy-eight, seventy-
nine, eighty, eighty-one and eighty-two, one of

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Preamble.