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Passed Mar. 4,
1840.
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1, An act providing for the acknowledgment and execution of
deeds of conveyance, and other instruments of writing in
foreign countries, touching property in this State.
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Consuls autho-
rosed to receive
acknowledg-
ments, &c.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Consuls and Vice Consuls of the
United States, duly appointed and recognised, shall be
authorised and empowered, as they hereby fully are, to re-
ceive the acknowledgments in writing of citizens of the
United Stales or other persons, being or residing in the
districts of their several consulates, of deeds of conveyance,
mortgage, letters of attorney or other legal instruments
whatever, touching or affecting real estate or other pro-
perly rights or interests whatever, situate, lying or being in
any part of this State, belonging to the said parties in
whole or in part, in their own light, or as agents or trus-
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Certificates to
be valid, &c.
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tees of others; and that the certificates of the said Consuls
and Vice Consuls, under their official seals shall be good
and available as evidence of the execution of such deeds
of conveyance or other legal instruments so as to autho-
rise the clerk of the county court of the county in which
the property lies, to record such deeds of conveyance or
mortgage, and the clerk of any county court in this State,
to record the other instruments hereinbefore described;
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Proviso.
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provided, such deeds of conveyance or mortgage or other
legal instruments whatever, shall be recorded within six
months from the date of the acknowledgments thereof re- '
spectively; and provided further, that as against creditors
or purchasers without notice the said deeds of conveyance
or mortgage or other legal instruments whatever shall on-
ly avail from the time of their being so recorded.
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