A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

with the stamp of the Comptroller, and any No-
tary Public who shall violate this provision shall,
for every such offence, be liable to a fine of five
hundred dollars, to be recovered by indictment in
the Circuit Court for the county or in the Criminal
Court of Baltimore, as the case may be, one-half
for the use of the State and one-half for the infor-
mer ; but in no action or other proceeding in law
or equity shall any protests be rejected as evidence,
if otherwise admissible on account of the absence
of the stamp of the Comptroller therefrom.

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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect on the first day of April next.

In force.

CHAPTER 109.

AN ACT to make valid a deed from Charles
Johnson to Elizabeth and Franklin Duyer.

Passed March
6, 1862.

WHEREAS, by a deed dated the twenty-ninth day
of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, a cer-
tain Charles Johnson, of Harford county, exe-
cuted a deed and duly acknowledged the same,
conveying a certain piece of land therein des-
cribed, to Elizabeth and Franklin Duyer, re-
corded among the land records of said Harford
county, in Liber W. G., number twelve, folio
three hundred and eighteen ; but the said deed
although signed by said Charles Johnson is de-
fective, for the want of the proper seal and
attestation of the said grantor, and the said
grantor has since died ; therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That said deed be and the same is
hereby made valid to all intents and purposes, as
if the same had been sealed with the seal of the
said Charles Johnson, and had been by him attest-
ed in due form of law.

Deed made
valid.

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

In force.