PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1849.

CHAPTER 66.

CHAP. 67.

An act to make valid a certain deed of Mortgage from
John H. Burchenal and wife, to James A. Pearce.

Passed Feb. 2,
1850.

WHEREAS, a deed of mortgage from John H. Bur-
chenal and Eliza Burchenal, his wife, to James A.
Pearce, dated on or about the twenty-first day of Oc-
tober, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, has been
recorded amongst the land records of Kent county,
in liber J N G, number twelve, folios forty-four and
forty-five, on which the affidavit of the mortgagee was
not endorsed, as required by the acts of Assembly, in
such case made and provided — Therefore,

Preamble.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said deed shall be as good and valid as if
the said affidavit had been endorsed thereon, agree-
ably to the said acts of Assembly; provided, the
said James A. Pearce, the mortgagee, shall, with-
in thirty days from and after the passage of this act,
make affidavit before a judge, or one of the justices
of the peace for Kent county, that the consideration
set forth in said deed of mortgage, is true and bona
fide, as therein set forth, which affidavit, with the cer-
tificate of the judge or justice before whom it is taken,
shall be recorded amongst the land records of Kent
county, within thirty days next after the same shall
be taken.

CHAPTER 67.

Deed made
valid.

Proviso.

A supplement to an act entitled, an act to alter and
amend the laws respecting Charlestown, in Cecil
county, passed at November Session, seventeen hun-
dred and eighty-six, chapter thirty-two.

Passed Feb. 4,
1850.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the time fixed by the act to which
this is a supplement, for the election of Commis-
sioners for Charlestown, in Cecil county, be and the
same is hereby changed to the second Monday in
January, instead of the time prescribed by said act.

Time of elect-
ing changed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the number of
Commissioners for said town shall be five, instead of
the number now allowed by law.

Number of
Commissioners
regulated.