1849

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 528.

Passed
March 4, 1850.

Preamble.

CHAPTER 528.

An act to make valid a Deed therein mentioned.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to the General
Assembly of Maryland, that a paper, purporting to be a
deed for a tract or parcel of land, lying partly in Cecil
county, in the State of Maryland, and partly in New-
castle county, in the State of Delaware, was for a valu-
able consideration, made and executed by Doctor Joseph
Chamberlain, executor of the late John Thompson, of
Delaware, to one Washington Russell, by virtue of an
authority contained in the will of the said John Thomp-
son; and whereas, the said paper was acknowledged be-
fore a notary public, of Delaware, who failed to certify
to the identity of the party grantor, and consequently is
insufficient to pass that part of the said real estate lying
in Maryland, as was intended, because of which the said
deed has not been recorded in this State; and whereas,
the said Joseph Chamberlain, executor as aforesaid, has
recently departed this life, and the defect in said paper
or deed cannot now be remedied by a re-acknowledg-
ment of the same — Now, therefore,

Declared valid.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the said deed or paper, purporting to be a deed
signed by Joseph Chamberlain, executor of J. Thomp-
son, in favor of Washington Russell, bearing date the
twenty-ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and forty-
eight, acknowledged before Robert M. Black, notary
public for Newcastle county, in the State of Delaware,
be recorded among the land records of Cecil county,
and that the said deed, when so recorded, shall have the
same force, validity and effect, to all intent and purpo-
ses, for transferring the title to that part of the tract or
parcel of land therein mentioned and described as being
in Cecil county aforesaid, as if the same had been duly
and regularly executed, acknowledged and recorded in
strict conformity with the laws of this State, in such
cases made and provided.