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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

wife, of Somerset county, Maryland, did exe-
cute an instrument of writing, designed to
operate as a deed in fee simple, to George E.
Whittington as grantee, of said county, for a
tract and parcel of land, containing fourteen
acres, more or less, particularly described in said
instrument, for the consideration of thirteen
hundred dollars ; and whereas, the name of
George E. Whittington was inadvertently omit-
ted in said instrument as grantee for said George
P. Leatherbury and Virginia Leatherbury, his
wife; therefore,

Instrument of
writing made
operative, &c.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the instrument of writing,
signed, sealed, executed and acknowledged on the
seventeenth day of December, eighteen hundred
and sixty-one, by George P. Leatherbury and
Virgina Leatherbury, his wife, before Smith Lank-
ford, as a Justice of the Peace of the State of Ma-
ryland, for Somerset county, is hereby made ope-
rative to convey a fee simple estate to said George
B. Whittington from George P. Leatherbury and
Virginia Leatherbury, his wife, in as full and am-
ple a manner as if the name of George E. Whit-
tington had been inserted as grantee therein at the
execution and acknowledgment thereof.

Instrument to
be recorded as
a deed.

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said instru-
ment shall be recorded as a deed by the Clerk of
the Circuit Court for Somerset county, and that
this act shall take effect from the day of its pas-
sage.