PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

shall be held on the first Friday of every July, in place
of the first Tuesday, as appointed in the case of the
other corporation.

CHAPTER 199.

CHAP. 199.

A supplement to an ad passed at December Session,
eighteen hundred and forty-six, chapter two hundred
and seventy-one.

Passed Feb.
25, 1850.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That any mortgagee, or other person to
whom any bill of sale or mortgage is hereafter exe-
cuted, who resides beyond the limits of the United
States, may make the affidavit required by the original
act to which this is a supplement, at any time upon
the recording of said mortgage or bill of sale, before
any consul or vice consul of the United States, duly
appointed and recognised in and for the district in
which such mortgagee or other person may reside,
and that the certificates of said consuls and vice con-
suls, under their official seals, shall be good and avail-
able, as evidence of the making of such affidavit for
all purposes whatsoever.

Acknowledg-
ments of deeds,
etc. by persons
residing out of
the country.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any mortgagee or
other person to whom any bill of sale is hereafter exe-
cuted, who may reside beyond the limits of this State,
may make the affidavit as required by the act to which
this is a supplement, before any person who is autho-
rised, by the laws of this State, to take the acknow-
ledgment of deeds beyond the limits of this State, for
lands within this State.

By persons
residing out of
the State.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect and go into operation from the date of its pas-
sage.

In force.