18949.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 255.

CHAPTER 254.

Passed Mar. 4,
1850.

A supplement to an act to incorporate a Company to
make a Turnpike Road in Washington county, com-
menting at the forks of the Hagerstown and Letters-
burg Turnpike. Road, in Washington county, leading
to the Pennsylvania line, passed December Session,
eighteen hundred and forty-seven, chapter one hun-
dred and sixty.

Time extended
for receiving
subscriptions.

Passed Feb. 28,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Richard Ragan, junior, Jacob B. Layman, P. C.
B. Willams, David Brambough, junior, Daniel Miller,
Peter Eshelman, and Washington Berry, commis-
sioners named in the original act to which this is a
supplement, be and they are hereby allowed until the
first day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty, to
open books for subscription to the capital stock of said
company, they having neglected to receive subscrip-
tion, as provided for in the second section of the act
to which this is a supplement.

CHAPTER 255.

1850.

An act to make valid a Deed therein mentioned.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, It has been represented to the General
Assembly of Maryland, that a certain deed for the
conveyance of certain land, in Cecil county, to James
Kirkpatrick, bearing date on the twelfth day of Au-
gust, in the year one thousand, eight hundred and
forty-one, and executed and acknowledged by William
Hines, and Rachel Hines, his wife, and another, has
not been certified by the justices of the peace before
whom the same was so executed and acknowledged,
to have been signed and sealed by the said Rachel
Hines, before them, out of the presence and hearing
of her husband, although the same was in fact so
signed and sealed, or that they, the said justices, were
satisfied, either of their own knowledge, or by oral
testimony, under oath, that the grantors in said deed
were the persons named and described as, and pro-
fessing to be, the parties thereto, although such proof