PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1847.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the several clerks of Montgomery,
Frederick, Washington and Allegany county courts,

be and they are hereby respectively authorised and
directed to record the said deed of mortgage in one of
the land record books of their respective counties.

CHAP. 261.

Clerks to re-
cord.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said deed of
mortgage, when so recorded and placed on the record

books of said, counties, shall have the same validity and
effect as if the same had been duly recorded within the
time prescribed by law, any law, usage or custom to the

contrary notwithstanding.

When record-
ed, to be valid.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the costs of record-
ing the said deed of mortgage be paid by the treasurer
but of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro-
priated.

CHAPTER 260.

Treasurer to

pay for record-

ing.

An act to divorce Joseph R. Codet, of the City of Balti-

more, from his wife Julia Ann Codet.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That Joseph R. Codet, of the city of Baltimore, be and
he is hereby divorced a vinculo matrimonii from his wife
Julia Ann Codet.

CHAPTER 261.

Passed

March 9, 1848.

Divorced.

An act for the more speedy collection of the State's
Revenue.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act it shall not
be necessary for the State, in any suit now or hereafter
to be brought upon any bond to be given by any person
who has the collection of any part of the State's revenue,
in reply to the plea of performance to set out at large
in its replication the breaches for which damages are
claimed, but may reply generally that the obligor or obli-
gors hath or have not performed the conditions of his or
their bonds, and give the special matter in evidence,

Passed
Mar. 10, 1848.

State to repay
generally.