1841.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

chap. 236.

recorded among the land records of Queen Ann's county,
and it is defective and insufficient to pass the legal title to
the land and premises therein mentioned, as well by reason
of the omission of the date, as also by reason of the same
not having been acknowledged and recorded as required by
the existing laws of this State—therefore,

Parties to file
deed.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the said Frisby Price and James W. Price, be and they are
hereby authorized to file the said deed with the clerk of
Queen Anne's county court, and the said clerk is hereby au-
thorized and required to record the same among the land re-
cords of said county; and the said deed and the acknowledg-
ment thereof, when received and recorded, shall be of the
same force, validity and effect for all purposes whatsoever,
as if the dale of its execution was inserted in the body
thereof, and the same had been executed, acknowledged,
certified and recorded according to the existing laws of this

Proviso.

State; provided, that this act shall not affect the right of any
bona fide purchaser or judgment creditor, who has or may
become so before the said deed shall be recorded as herein
directed.

CHAPTER 286.

Passed March
4, 1842.

A supplement to an act entitled, an act for the relief of
Thomasina H. Gist, an infant, passed December session
eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, chapter one hundred
and thirty.

Preamble

Whereas, a decree for the sale of a portion of the real
estate of Thomasina H. Gist, an infant, has lately been pas-
sed by Baltimore county court, sitting as a court of equity,
by virtue of the authority in said court vested by the several
acts of Assembly, relating to the sale of estates belonging
to infants; and whereas, it is believed that the funds derived
from the sale of the real estate sold under said decree may
possibly be more advantageously invested for said infant,
in real than in personal estate, and doubts existing whether
by the act to which this is a supplement or otherwise, the
court have authority to direct such an investment—there-
fore,

Judges may
invest.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That the judges of Baltimore county court may, if
they think proper so to do, direct any funds are or may be
under their control belonging to the said Thomasina H.