1847.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 31.

and with intent to interrupt the operations of the tele--
graph, injure or destroy any of the poles, wires or other
works of the telegraph companies, now incorporated
or which may hereafter be incorporated in this State,
shall be subject to presentment in the county court of
the county in which such injury may have been com-
mitted, or in Baltimore city court, said injuries having
been committed within the limits of Baltimore city,
and upon conviction shall be liable to a penalty of not
more than five hundred or less than fifty dollars, or
confinement in the county or city jail, as the case
may be, for not more than twelve or less than three
months, at the discretion of the court.

Inconsistent
acts repealed.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That all laws heretofore
passed, imposing fines or penalties for the offences
herein provided against, shall be and the same are
hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 31.

Passed
Jan. 25, 1848.

Made valid.

An act to make valid a deed of lease from Hugh McEl-
dery and Margaret P. his wife, and William C.
Doged, to Elizabeth Sherwood.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, the certi-
ficate of acknowledgment of a deed of lease from
Hugh McEldery and Margaret P. McEldery his wife,
and William C. Doged, to Elizabeth Sherwood, bear-
ing date on the twenty-eighth day of July, in the year
eighteen hundred and forty-two, and recorded among
the land records of Baltimore county, in liber T. K. num-
ber three hundred and twenty-two, folio eighty-seven,
and so forth, be and the same is hereby ratified, confirm-
ed and made valid as though the said acknowledgment
had been made and certified in every particular in
conformity with the provisions of the laws of this
State, relating to acknowledgments of deeds.