1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 189.

Howard district, has since sold said real estate, which
said sale, has been ratified and confirmed by the or-
phans court of Howard district, — Therefore,

To give deed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Nicholson Vansant, executor of Nich-
olas Vansant, be and he is hereby authorised and em-
powered, upon the receipt of the purchase money, to
execute and acknowledge, in due form of law, a deed
of conveyance to the purchaser for the real estate men-
tioned in the said last will and testament of the de-
ceased.

Deed made
valid.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That after said deed
shall have been executed and recorded, the title thereby
conveyed shall be valid to all intents and purposes, any
law or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAPTER 188.

Passed Mar. 4,
1850.

An act to divorce Julia Ann Taylor, of the city of An-
napolis, from her husband, John T. Taylor.

Divorced.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Julia Ann Taylor, of the city of Annapolis, be and
she is hereby divorced from her husband, John T. Tay-
lor, a vinculo matrimonii.

CHAPTER 189.

Passed
March 1, 1850.

An act entitled, an act to make valid ah indenture or
instrument of writing, executed by Elizabeth S.
Chaplain, and Mary Kennard, free negro.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, an instrument of writing, or indenture,
was executed by Elizabeth S. Chaplain, and Mary Ken-
nard, free negro, of Dorchester county, on the thirty-first
day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, which
indenture or instrument of writing is duly recorded in
Liber E R, number eighteen, folios ninety-eight and
ninety-nine, one of the land record books for Dorches-
ter county; and whereas, the acknowledgment to the
said indenture, by an oversight in the parties making