THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

shall refuse or neglect, in a reasonable time after demand
to deliver over to such new guardian or guardians, the
property of the ward or wards, the said courts may com-
pel the same by attachment, and may direct the bond of
such displaced guardian or guardians to be put in suit.
SEC. 3. Be it enacted, That nothing herein contained
shall be construed as to relieve the guardian or guardians
whose appointment is revoked as aforesaid from the
same liabilities, to which, under existing provisions of
the acts of Assembly, guardians ore subject, whose ap-

CHAP. 150.

pointments may be revoked; provided, that such revoca-
tion shall be of no force and effect whatsoever, until the
newly appointed guardian or guardians shall have signi-
fied his or their acceptance of the said appointment by
filing in the orphans court his or their bond or bonds in
such penalty and with such sureties as the said court
shall approve, according to the terms of the fourth sec-
tion of the twelfth sub-chapter of chapter one hundred
and one, passed November session, seventeen hundred
and ninety-eight.

Proviso.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect and be in force from after the day of its passage.

CHAPTER 150.

Take effect af-
ter its passage.

An act entitled, an act to make valid and have recorded an
instrument of writing purporting to be a deed of con-
veyance of certain real estate therein mentioned, from
Thomas C. Brent, to the firm of John Brady and Ro-
bert Wason, and signed and sealed by the said Brent,
but not acknowledged, and recorded according to law.

Passed Feb.
27, 1847.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the paper or instrument of writing purporting and in-
tending to be a deed of conveyance of real estate from
Thomas C. Brent, late of Washington county, deceased,
to the firm of John Brady, and Robert Wason, of the said
county, bearing date the sixth of May, in the year eighteen
hundred and nineteen, and signed and executed, but not
acknowledged by said Thomas C. Brent according to
law be, and the same is hereby made as good, effectual
and valid to all intents and purposes, to convey the real
estate therein mentioned and described as if the same had
been originally executed, acknowledged and recorded,

Made valid.