1834

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 95.

after payment, or tender of payment, of the damages as a-
foresaid, the said commissioners, or a majority of them,
are hereby authorised and directed to remove the same
without delay.

Authority to close

&c.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners
shall have authority, after having extended East street as
hereinbefore provided, to close up the street heretofore
opened and running from East to Prince George. street, at
the time said East street was obstructed.

Repeal

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts
heretofore passed, inconsistent with the provisions of this
act, are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 95.

Passed Feb. 23, 1835

An act to authorise the recording of certain Deeds of Ma-
numission.

Directions to record

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That the Clerk of Talbot County Court, be, and
he is hereby authorised to record the three several deeds of
manumission from Anna Maria Tilghman, each dated the
eighteenth day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and
thirty-two, one in favor of her slave Henry Wright, the
other in favor of her slave Anna Maria Wright, and the
other in favor of her slave Maria Wright; and that said
deeds, when recorded, shall be as valid and effectual for
every purpose, as if they had respectively been duly re-
corded within the time prescribed by law; Provided, they
respectively be recorded before the first day of September
next.

Deed, confirmed

Sec. 2. And whereas, it is doubtful whether the certifi-
cate of the acknowledgment of the grantor, endorsed on
the paper containing the deeds of manumission in favor of
said slaves, Henry and Anna Maria, is effectual in law, as
to each of said deeds, though apparently intended to com-
prehend both; — Therefore, be it further enacted, that said
deeds, when respectively recorded as aforesaid, shall be as
effectual as if the same had been duly acknowledged, and
the acknowledgment thereof had been, respectively, certi-
fied.