PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

was made and that the said certificate of acknow-
ledgment is irregular in other respects; and whereas,
it is just and right, inasmuch as the grantee in said
deed paid a valuable consideration for said land, and
it was the intention and desire of all the parties to the
said deed to make it effective to convey the grantors
title in said land, that that intention and desire should
not be defeated by mere matters of form — Therefore,

CHAP. 256.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the same deed be and the same
is hereby declared and made as valid and effective
for conveying all the right, title, interest and estate of
the grantors therein named to the grantee therein
named, as if the certificate of the execution and ac-
knowledgment thereof endorsed thereon by the jus-
tices of the peace before whom the same was execu-
ted and acknowledged, has been made and expressed
in strict conformity with the provisions and require-
ments of the acts of Assembly in regard to the legal
execution and acknowledgments of deeds in this
State, as if all the requirements by said acts had been
strictly complied with by the said grantors and justices
respectively.

Made valid.

SEC. 2. And be it also enacted, That it shall be the
duty of the clerk of Cecil county court, at any time here-

after, when requested, to write on the margin of the
page of said land record book of said county, wherein
the aforesaid deed has been recorded, these words,
namely, this deed made valid by an act of Assembly
of Maryland, passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and forty-nine.

CHAPTER 256.

Endorsement

by clerk.

An act for the relief of William Robinson Sheffield
and Mary E. Sheffield.

Passed Feb. 20,
1850.

WHEREAS, it is represented and shown to this General
Assembly, that at the December session, eighteen hun-
dred and thirty-five, an act was passed divorcing the said
Mary E., then the wife of William W. Lewis, a mensa
et thoro, and that said Mary E. was informed and be-
lieved that said divorce was a vinculo matrimonii, and
that said Mary E. being under such mistaken belief did,
on the twenty seventh day of May, eighteen hundred

Preamble.