1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 356.

claim of Joseph Stewart, late clerk of the Circuit
court of Charles county, and if in the opinion of
the said board of county commissioners, the said
claim he just and proper, they are hereby authorised
to levy upon the assessable property of said county,
a sum sufficient to pay the same, which said amount
shall be collected as other county taxes are now
collected.

CHAPTER 356.

Passed March
10, 1860.

AN ACT to confirm and make valid a deed of
mortgage from George H. Hall and Peter Bogert,
to William Morrison.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, doubts are entertained as to the validity
of a deed of mortgage from George H. Hall and
Peter Bogert, to William Morrison, dated the
twenty-fourth day of April, eighteen hundred and
fifty-eight, and recorded in Liber C. S. M., number
two, folio four hundred fifty-nine, one of the land
records of Prince George's county, and acknow-
ledged before Samuel Brooks, as a justice of the
peace, in and for the said county, under the impres-
sion that under the constitution and laws of this
State, he was duly qualified to act as such at the
time of taking the acknowledgment of the said
deed of mortgage, and until his successor in office
was duly elected and qualified, therefore,

Made valid.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the said deed of mortgage from
the said George H. Hall and Peter Bogert, to the
said William Morrison, executed and acknowledged
before the said Samuel Brooks, as a justice of the
peace for Prince George's county, be and the same
is hereby made as valid, to all intents and pur-
poses, as if the said Samuel Brooks, had been
legally and duly qualified to take the acknowledg-
ment of the said deed, according to the laws of this
State.

In force.

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