1849.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 539.

CHAPTER 538.

Passed Mar. 9,
1850.

An act relating to Free Negroes, in Cecil, Kent, and
Queen Anne's counties.

Free negroes
not permitted
to return after
having left the
State.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That if any free negro, residing in either of the coun-
ties of Cecil Kent, and Queen Anne's, after having
left the State of Maryland, shall return, he or she shall
be subject to the penalties imposed on free negroes
emigrating into this State, by the act of eighteen hun-
dred and thirty-nine, chapter thirty-eight.

CHAPTER 539.

Passed
Mar. 9, 1850.

An act entitled, an act to make valid a certain Deed
therein mentioned.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, in the deed from Robert Cruikshanks,
and Martha E. Cruikshanks, his wife, conveying cer-
tain lands in Kent county to George B. Westwell, and
others, the trustees of the poor of said county, which
deed hears date on or about the seventh day of August,
eighteen hundred and forty-seven, the justices of the
peace before whom the said Robert Cruikshanks and
wife, executed and acknowledged the said deed, but
omitted to sign their names to the said acknowledg-
ment at the time it was taken; and whereas, one of
the said parties to said deed, and the surviving justice,
have certified to the said acknowledgment and exe-
cution, and annexed an oath thereto, that the same
was made before him and his fellow justice of the
peace, who is since dead; and whereas, the execution
and acknowledgment of the said deed by John D.
Cruikshanks and wife, was made before a judge of a
court of law and of record, in the State of Louisiana,
where the said grantors resided, but is invalid in con-
sequence of the want of a certificate as to the quali-
fication of the said judge — Therefore,

Declared valid.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the acknowledgment of the said deed by the
said Robert Cruikshanks and wife, before one justice
of the peace, shall be as valid to all intents and pur-
poses as if it had been made before and certified by