THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1846.

CHAPTER 335.

An act to make valid a certain Deed therein mentioned,

WHEREAS, it is represented to the General Assembly
of the State of Maryland, that Meshack Frost and Catha-
rine his wife, upon the thirty-first day of March, in the
year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, executed
a certain conveyance of lot number thirty -six, in the town
of Frostburg, in Allegany county, to Jacob and Matilda
Murselman, which said deed, it is apprehended, has
been defectively acknowledged — Therefore,

CHAP. 336.

Passed March
10, 1847.

Preamble.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said acknowledgment be, and it is hereby de-
clared to be valid and sufficient; and as such, pleadable
in any suit at law and in equity, where the production of
the said deed as evidence may be necessary.

CHAPTER 336.

Valid and suf-
ficient.

An act to prescribe the manner in which oaths of office of

Governor of this State, shall be administered after the
Election of eighteen hundred and fifty, and thereafter.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Governor of this State who shall be
elected in eighteen hundred and fifty, and thereafter, shall
qualify by taking the oaths of office prescribed by the act
of February session, of seventeen hundred and seventy-
seven, chapter five, and the constitution of this State,
before the chancellor, or either of the judges of the
Court of Appeals of this State, who are hereby empower-
ed to administer said oaths of office.

Passed March
10, 1847.

Oath of Go-

vernor.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of
the chancellor nt judge, who may administer said oaths
of office, to prepare a certificate of the same, which shall
be recorded in the office of the clerk of the Court of
Appeals of the Western Shore of this State.

Prepare cer-
tificate.

SEC. 3, And be it enacted, That all acts inconsistent
with the provisions of this act be, and the same are
hereby repealed.

Repealed.