1843

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

CHAP. 280.

CHAPTER 229.

Passed Feb.
23, 1844.

An act to make valid a certain deed.

Made valid.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the deed from Michael B. Carroll and Jane M. Car-
roll to Benjamin Owens, recorded on the eleventh day of
April, eighteen Hundred and thirty-seven, amongst the land
records of Calvert county, be and the same is hereby
declared to be as valid and effectual to all intents and pur-
poses, as if the certificate of the clerk of Prince George's
county court to the official character of the justice before
whom said deed was acknowledged, had been annexed to
said deed, before the same was recorded.

CHAPTER 230.

Passed Feb.
15, 1844.

An additional supplement to the act entitled, an act for
founding an academy at Haters-town, Washington
County, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
ten, chapter fifty-five.

Trustees au-
thorised to sell

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the trustees of the Hagers-town Academy,
be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to sell
and convey, such portions of the lands belonging to said
academy, as in their judgment may be for the benefit and
advantage thereof, and the proceeds of any such sales, they
shall apply to the repairs or improvements of the buildings
belonging to said academy, or to such other purposes as
said trustees may deem most beneficial to said institution.

Deed of con-
veyance valid.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That any deed of conveyance
for any portion of said lands, which shall or may be sold as
aforesaid, which shall be executed by said trustees or a
majority of them, and acknowledged before any two justice
of the peace of said county, in the usual form, and shall
also be sealed with the corporate seal of said corporation,
shall be good and effectual to all intents and purposes, both
at law and in equity, to pass the title of said lands so con-
veyed to the grantee or grantees in such deed, his, her or
their heirs and assigns forever.