1849.

LAWS OP MARYLAND.

CHAP. 219

ton county, did, on the seventeenth of March, eighteen
hundred and forty-seven, execute to a certain John
Marteney, of said county, a deed conveying to the said
John Marteney, a house and lot or portion of ground,
lying and being in Hagerstown in the said county, and
recorded on the third day of August, eighteen hundred
and forty-seven, in Liber J N, number two, folios seven
hundred and nineteen and seven hundred and twenty,
one of the land records of Washington county; and
whereas, the stamp duty hath never been paid agreeably
to law, and by reason thereof is defective, to remedy
which,

Made valid.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the deed executed on the seventeenth day of
March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, from Samuel
B. Clagett, of Washington county, to John Marteney,
of the same county, and recorded on the third day of
August, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, in liber J N,
number two, folios seven hundred and nineteen and
seven hundred and twenty, one of the land records of
Washington county, be and the same is hereby con-
firmed and made valid and effectual in law for all pur-
poses whatsoever, as fully as if the stamp duty had
been paid within the time prescribed by law; provided,

Proviso.

the said John Marteney, shall within one month from
the dale of the passage of this act, comply with the re-
quirements of law relating to the stamp duty.

CHAPTER 219.

Passed Mar. 4,
1850.

An act to incorporate the Town of Frostburg, in Alle-
gany Comity.

Incorporated,
&c.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the citizens of the town of Frostburg,
in Allegany county, shall be, and they are hereby con-
stituted and made a body corporate, by the name of
tin; commissioners of Frostburg, with all the privi-
leges of a body corporate, and to have a common seal,
and perpetual succession.

Voting regula-

ted.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the free male white
citizens of Frostburg aforesaid, of the age of twenty-
one years, and upwards, and have resided in the said
place for and during the space of six months next pre-
ceding the election, may, on the first Monday in May