1807.

NOVEMBER. LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP.
CLIV.

any two of them, to take the private examination and acknowledgment of such feme-covert in the
manner herein before directed, when such feme-covert shall be named as grantor, bargainer, vendor
or donor, in any such deed or conveyance, or be about to relinquish her dower in any lands, tene-
ments or hereditaments, mentioned in such deed or conveyance; and such deed or conveyance, ac-
knowledged before such commissioners, or any two of them, in the manner herein before directed,
and which examination and acknowledgment being certified under the bands and seals of the said,
commissioners, so taking such examination and acknowledgment, and returned with such deed or
conveyance and commission aforesaid to the court from whence the said commission shall issue, shall
be recorded amongst the records of the said court, and shall be as valid and effectual in law, to all
intents and purposes, as if the same had been executed or acknowledged in this state agreeably to
the provisions of the several acts of assembly in force, upon this subject previous to the passing o£
this act.

Deeds to be re-
corded, &c.

VI. PROVIDED ALWAYS, AND BE IT ENACTED, That any deed or conveyance, executed and ac-
knowledged in virtue of this act, shall be recorded within the time prescribed by the act, entitled,
A further additional supplementary act to the act to which this is also a further additional supple-
mentary act, passed at November session, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and.
ninety-eight.

Proviso.

VII. PROVIDED ALWAYS, AND BE IT ENACTED, That nothing herein contained shall have opera-
tion to prevent the execution, acknowledgment and recording of deeds, according to provisions of
the law now in force.

Clerks to re-
cord all deeds,
&c.

VIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerks ef the court of appeals be and they are hereby di-
rected and authorised to record ail deeds of conveyance, or extracts of deeds, required by law to be
recorded, in the same manner that the late clerks of the general court might or could have done,
and that they receive the same fees therefor, as are charged and received by the clerks of the county,
courts of this state for the like services.

And retain all
papers, &c.

IX. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the duty of the clerk to retain, file and preserve, in.
his office, all such written papers purporting to be the assent of grantors or femes-covert to the issu-
ing of commissions as directed by this act.

CHAP. CLV.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

An ACT for the preservation of the navigation of the north-west
branch of Nanticoke river, in Dorchester county.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that the navigation of the north-west
branch of the said river is much injured by the erection of wears and hedges in and upon the.
game; therefore,

Wears deemed
nuisances, &c.

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all wears and hedges already made,
or hereafter to be- made, in the channel of that part of the said branch of the said river which lies,
between the channel of the main river and the place on the aforesaid branch or river called The
Walnut Landing, so as to stop the passage of boats or vessels, or in any manner injure the naviga-
tion of the said branch or river, shall be deemed, and are hereby declared, nuisances, and may be
by any person taken out of said branch or river, and destroyed as such.

No person to

make any
wear, &c.

III. AND EE IT ENACTED, That no person or persons shall, after the first day of March next,
put, place or make, any wear or hedge in the channel or mouth of the said branch or river, so as to
stop the passage of boats or vessels, or in any manner injure the navigation thereof, under the penal-
ty of twenty dollars for every such offence, to be recovered before a single magistrate, in the same
manner as small debts are recovered, and appropriated, one half to the informer or person who will
sue for or prosecute to effect for the same, the other half to the use of Dorchester county, any law
to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAP. CLVI.

Passed 20th of
January, 1808.

An ACT authorising the court of chancery to decree in the case;
therein mentioned.

Preamble.

WHEREAS Elie Williams, Nathaniel Rochester, Daniel Hughes, and Anne his wife, (former-
ly Anne Elliott, ) Calunder Irwin, and Patient his wife, Duncan, and Harriet his wife,