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Preamble.
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WHEREAS, it has been represented to this General
Assembly, that two certain deeds, or papers, purporting
to be deeds for the conveyance of land in Cecil county,
between John Bryan, of Cecil county, in the State of
Maryland, saddler, of the one part, and Robert Owings
and Nancy his wife, and Elizabeth Hukill, of Clarke
county, in the State of Kentucky, of the other part, bear-
ing dale on the twenty-seventh day of August, in the
year eighteen hundred and four, and recorded in Liber J.
B, No. 9, folio 359, &c., one of the land record books
of said county, and the other between John Bryan, of
Cecil county, in the State of Maryland, saddler, of the
one part, and James Whittam and Ann his wife, arid
John Culbertson and Sarah his wife, of the other part,
bearing date on the twenty-ninth day of September, in
the year eighteen hundred and three, and recorded in
Liber J. B., No, 9, folio 363, &c., the same land record
book aforesaid, have not been executed, acknowledged
and recorded in strict conformity with the laws of this
State then existing in reference to such matters; and
whereas, it has been further represented that the said
deeds respectively, profess to convey an estate in fee in
the property in them respectively mentioned and de-
scribed, and the possession of the said property has beep
held, and the exclusive title therein claimed by the gran-
tee therein named, and those claiming under him for forty
years and upwards, from the date and execution of the
said deed; and whereas, it is but just and equitable that the
title of the present owner should not, after such a lapse
of time, be disturbed — therefore,
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Made valid.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said two deeds, and each of them be, and they
are hereby made as good, effectual and valid, to all in-
tents and purposes, to convey the land therein respec-
tively mentioned and described, and the several interests
of each and every party grantor therein named in and to
the same, as if the said two deeds, and each of them,
had been originally executed, acknowledged and re-
corded by each and every party grantor therein respec-
tively named, in strict conformity to the provisions of the
laws then in being and in force in this State in regard to
the execution, acknowledgment and recording of deeds
'for the conveyance of lands.
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