FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1841.

CHAPTER 287.

chap. 288.

An act to make valid a certain Instrument of Writing there-
in mentioned.

Passed March
8, 1842.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the instrument of writing from John P. Nicholson and
Benjamin S. Nicholson to Nicholas Nicholson, dated the
twenty-seventh day of October in the year of our Lord,
eighteen hundred and forty-one, and recorded in Liber W.
S. G. Number twenty-six, folio sixty-eight and so forth, one
of the land records of Anne Arundel county, is hereby de-
clared to be as valid and operative to all intents and pur-
poses as if the same had been recorded within the time
specified by law, provided, that nothing in this act shall affect
the rights of bona fide purchasers without notice.

Made valid
Proviso.

CHAPTER 288.

An act for the benefit of Charles Oliver of the City of Bal-
timore.

Passed March
8, 1842.

Whereas, it appears to this General Assembly, that an
error was committed by the surveyor of Frederick county,
and by the register of the land office, for the western shore
of Maryland, in reciting the first course, both in the office
certificate and the patent for a tract of land called Mount
Pleasant, granted to Baker Johnson on the twenty-second
day of May, seventeen hundred and eighty-seven, wherein
the said first course was mode to run south seventy-two de-
grees west; whereas, it should have been made to run south
seventy-two degrees east; and whereas, the said Charles
Oliver has satisfied this General Assembly that another tract
called Chance belonging to him, is dependent upon the true
running of the said first course, and also, that the present
owners of the said tract called Mount Pleasant, are also
aware of the said error and desirous of its correction—
therefore,

Preamble

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the register of the land office for the western shore, be
and he is hereby required so to amend the said patent, and
also his office record of the same, for the tract of land called
Mount Pleasant as to make the said first course read south
seventy-two degrees east, instead of south seventy-two de-

Register may
amend patent

grees west, as it at present reads; provided, that nothing in

Proviso.