A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 371

CHAPTER 272.
AN ACT to pay John T. Wright a sum of money for services rendered by him as Messenger to the Senate.	Passed Mar. 8, 1864.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Treasurer of the State be and he is hereby authorized and directed to pay upon the warrant of the Comptroller of the State to John T. Wright, the sum of two hundred dol- lars for Services rendered by him as Messenger to the Senate, under an order passed by the Senate, from the tenth day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to the sixth day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.	Authorized to pay.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect and go into operation from the day of its passage.	In force.

CHAPTER 273.
AN ACT to make valid a deed from John Thomas Adams and Mary A. Adams, his wife, to the Vestry of Coventry Parish of Somerset and Worcester counties.	Passed Mar. 7,1864.
WHEREAS, by deed dated the twenty-fifth day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-five, the said John Thomas Adams and Mary A. Adams, his wife, conveyed to the Vestry of Coventry Parish in Somerset and Worcester counties, a cer- tain parcel of land described in said deed; and whereas, the said deed was executed and acknow- ledged before John Showacre and J. L. Maguire, two of the Justices of the Peace of the State of Maryland, in and for Baltimore city; and, where- as, there is no certificate annexed or attached to said deed from and by the Clerk of the	Preamble.