THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1837.

CHAPTER 304.

CHAP. 304.

An act to make valid a certain Deed therein mentioned,

Passed Mar. 29,
1838.

WHEREAS, by a deed in writing, duly executed and
acknowledged in Baltimore county, bearing date the
thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, a certain Elias
Brown and Susanah Brown, his wife; William Brown
and Ann W., his wife; and Lewis H. Brown and Su-
sanah. his wife, of Baltimore county, in the State of
Maryland, did, for a valuable consideration, convey
to a certain Greenbury Buckingham, of Anne Arundel
county, of the State of Maryland, their undivided in-
terest in and 1o a certain part of a tract of land called
Mount Misery, lying and being in Anne Arundel coun-
ty, which deed was signed and acknowledged before
George W. Alien and Joseph Steel, two justices of the
peace duly commissioned and qualified for Baltimore
county; and whereas, the said Greenbury Bucking-
ham being ignorant of the laws existing relative to the
filing and recording of deeds and other instruments of
writing for the legal conveying of land, omitted to
have the certificate of the clerk of Baltimore county
court, of the official character of said justices of the
peace, annexed to the said deed and the same recorded
within the time required by law: — Therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the said Greenbury Buckingham be,
and he is hereby authorised to file with the clerk of
Anne Arundel county court, within sixty days from
the passage of this act, the said deed hereinbefore re-
ferred to; provided a certificate in the usual form, that
the said George W. Allen and Joseph Steel were jus-
tices of the peace at the date of said acknowledgment,
be previously annexed thereto.

Authorised to
file deed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the clerk of Anne
Arundel county court be, and he is hereby authorised
and directed to record the said deed in one of the land
record books of Anne Arundel county.

Record directed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said deed, when
so recorded and placed on the record books of said
county, shall have the same validity and effect as if the

Declared valid.