1844

THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

of Appeals, and on the trial docket of the county courts
in the second judicial district, shall be continued by con-
sent, on the application of the respective parties, or of
their counsel.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act and the act
passed at the present session of the General Assembly
entitled, "an act relating to the practice in Baltimore
county court in certain cases, " shall be in force from
the day of the passage of this act.

CHAPTER 20.

Passed Jan.
13, 1845.

An act to make valid a Deed of Mortgage from William
M. Henderson of the City of Baltimore, to Edward Lam-
den of Worcester County.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly
of Maryland, that a certain William M. Henderson did ex-
ecute on the twenty-sixth day of June, eighteen hundred
and forty-four, a deed to said Edward Lamdin for certain
real estate therein recited, in Worcester County, for the
purposes therein named, which said deed was duly ac-
knowledged before D. H. McDonald and Samuel Harker,
two justices of the Peace of the State of Maryland for Bal-
timore city; AND WHEREAS, the certificate of Thomas
Kell, clerk of Baltimore county Court, was affixed there-
to, on the fourth day of January, eighteen hundred and
forty-five, certifying that said Justices were duly commis-
sioned and sworn as such at the time of the execution of
said instrument, and in order to obviate objections to said

Made valid.

deed of Mortgage—Therefore
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That said deed is hereby authorised and directed to be en-
rolled among the land records of Worcester county, and
is hereby pronounced to have the same legal effect and va-
lidity as though the certificate of said Clerk had been con-
temporaneous with the execution thereof before said Jus-
tices, and said deed or instrument of writing had been en-
rolled according to law.