1842

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 263.

CHAPTER 262.

Passed March
10, 1S43.

An act for the relief of John Porter of Allegany county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it appears that Samuel B. Barrell and Roger
C. Weightman, heretofore to wit on the fifth day of Sep-
tember, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty
five, executed to John Porter, of Allegany county, a deed
of mortgage on a certain tract of land therein mentioned,
which said deed has not been recorded within the time li-
mited by law— therefore,

Made valid

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Clerk of Allegany county court be and lie
is hereby authorized to record said mortgage, and the
same shall be good and valid in law to all intents and
purposes, in the same manner as if the same had been re-

Proviso.

corded within the time limited by law, provided, that this
law shall not be so construed as to interfere with, or in any
manner impair the rights of bonafide purchasers without
notice or junior mortgages on record.

CHAPTER 263.

Passed March
7, 1843.

A supplement to the act to establish Magistrate's Courts in
Prince George's county, passed December session eighteen
hundred and forty-one, chapter one hundred and ninety-
nine.

Court not to
tax Attorneys
fees.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the said courts shall not henceforth tax
Attorneys fees as part of the costs against either party.

Clerk to deli-
ver dockets.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the clerk of Prince
George's county, shall deliver to the respective district
courts, the dockets remaining in his office heretofore depo-
sited there by former judges of said courts, and the said
courts shall have jurisdiction in all cases remaining open on
said dockets, and may renew or issue such new process as
may be necessary to the settlement of said cases, in the
same manner as they may now do, in regard to cases on
their own docket.

Repealed.

SEC. 3, And be it enacted, That so much of the law
passed at December session eighteen hundred and forty-one,
chapter ninety-nine, giving concurrent jurisdiction to the
county courts, on all sums of fifty dollars and upwards, be
and the same is hereby repealed.