THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1845.

ing twenty days notice of such new election in one or
more newspapers published in Washington county, and
by handbills put up at public places in said county, and
said election shall be held and regulated as other elec-
tions.

CHAP. 85.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the board of com-
missioners of Washington county, hereafter elected by
virtue of this act, shall have all the powers, rights and
authority, be subject to the same qualifications, perform
all the duties, and make all appointments that the present
board of commissioners of said county have heretofore
had and exercised, under the laws in being, before and
at the time of the passage of this act.

Powers, rights
&c.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of
acts of the General Assembly, so far as they are incon-
sistent with this act, be and they are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 83.

Repealed.

An act to cure a defect in the acknowledgement of a Deed
therein mentioned.

WHEREAS, in the acknowledgement of a deed from
Isaac Henderson and his wife Henrietta, Samuel Benson
and his wife Matilda, Henry Henderson and his wife
Ann, all in the State of Missouri, to John U. Dennis in
the State of Maryland, the said deed was executed and
acknowledged before two justices of the peace, instead
of before a judge of a court of records and of law, or be-
fore a judge of the supreme or circuit or district court of
the United States, as directed by the act of eighteen hun-
dred twenty-five, chapter fifty-eight, section first — there-
fore,

Passed Feb.
30, 1846.

Preamble.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said deed be, and the same is hereby made as
good and valid in law to all intents and purposes what-
soever as if the same had been regularly executed.

Made valid.