752 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 404

notwithstanding the provisions of this section, be valid and
binding, and of full force and effect both at law and in
equity, between the original parties to such lease. All such
deeds shall be acknowledged before some one of the officers
named in sections [four, five, six and seven of this Article]
10, 11 and 12 of Article 18, and any unmarried woman be-
tween the age of eighteen years and twenty-one years, shall
have power to make a deed of trust of her property, real,
personal, or mixed; provided, the same shall be approved
and sanctioned by a court having equity jurisdiction in the
city or county where the grantor resides, upon the petition
of said grantor, and such proof as the court in its discretion
may require.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Sections 1 to 8,
inclusive, of Article 18 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition) title "Acknowledgments, " be and they are
hereby repealed and that Sections 11, 17(b) and 18 of said
Article 18 (1951 Edition), sub-title "Uniform Acknowl-
edgments Act, " be and they are hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, and that a new section be and
it is hereby added to said Article 18, said new section to be
known as Section 18A, to follow immediately after Section
18 of said Article, and all to read as follows:

11. (Acknowledgment Within the United States. ) The
acknowledgment of any instrument may be made without
the State but within the United States or a territory or
insular possession of the United States or the District of
Columbia [or the Philippine Islands] and within the juris-
diction of the officer, before:

(1) A Clerk or Deputy Clerk of any Federal Court;

(2) A Clerk or Deputy Clerk of any court of record of
any State or other jurisdiction;

(3) A Notary Public.

17. (Authentication of Acknowledgments. )

(b) If the acknowledgment is taken without this State,
but in the United States, a territory or insular possession of
the United States, or the District of Columbia [, or the
Philippine Islands, the certificate shall], no authentication
shall be necessary. The certificate may, however, be au-
thenticated by a certificate as to the official character of
such officer, executed, if the acknowledgment is taken by
a Clerk or Deputy Clerk of a court, by the presiding judge
of the court, or, if the acknowledgment is taken by a Notary
Public, by a Clerk of a Court of Record of the County,