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Preamble.
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WHEREAS, it is represented to this Legislature, that
a certain William Coard, and Frances Coard, his wife,
of the State of Missouri, did, on the twenty seventh
day of July, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-
four, execute, acknowledge, and deliver unto John R.
Coard, their deed for certain real estate, lying and
being situate in Worcester county, in the State of
Maryland; and whereas, it does not appear, by the
certificate of acknowledgment thereon, that the said
Frances Coard signed and sealed the same out of the
presence and hearing of her husband, or that the said
acknowledgment was made before a judge of a court
of record, and of law; and whereas, the said John R.
Coard, grantee in the said deed, and Amelia, his wife,
by their deed, executed on the fifth day of October,
in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred
and forty-four, convey the said real estate to Robert
Franklin, which said last mentioned deed is also de-
fecthe, by reason that it is nut certified in the ac-
knowlegment thereof, that the said Amelia signed and
sealed the same out of the presence and hearing of
her said husband — Therefore.
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Made valid.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said deeds ho and the same are hereby con-
firmed and made as valid to all intents and purposes,
as if the first named thereof had been acknowledged
before a judge of a court of record and of law, and
as if in tin; certificate of acknowledgment of each, it
were specially stated, that the said Frances, and the
said Amelia had respectively signed and sealed the
said deeds out of the presence and hearing of their
respective husbands; provided, that in all other re-
spects the said deeds are executed, acknowledged and
recorded according to law.
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