E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1852.

CHAPTER 256.

AN ACT to make valid the official Acts of James
McAnally, a Constable in and for Allegany county.

CHAP. 256.

Passed May
26, 1852.

WHEREAS, It is represented, as follows: That James
McAnally, of Allegany county, was appointed by the
commissioners of said county, in August, eighteen hun-
dred and fifty-one, a constable; mid that the said
McAnally did, in the time prescribed by law, file his
bond as constable, with good and sufficient security,
before Thomas McCormick and Hugh D. Hagan, two
justices of the pence of said county, and that the said
bond was lost or mislaid by Thomas McCormick, one

of the said justices of the peace, as aforesaid, and con-
sequently not recorded in the county records as required
by law; Therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the official acts of James McAnally,
a constable in, and for Allegany county, shall not be
vitiated or set aside by reason of the failure of the jus-
tice of the peace, before whom the same was taken, to
return the constable's bond of the said McAnally, and
to have had the same recorded as required by law, but
that his said official acts shall be as binding and legal

Official acts
declared not
vitiated.

as if the said bond had been recorded; Provided, his
acts are, in all other respects, according to law; And
provided further, that he substitutes in the place of the
last bond, a bond that can be made liable for all his acts
which have been performed by him since his appointment
as aforesaid, and which shall be performed by him in the
discharge of his office of constable; And provided also,
that the Circuit court lor Allegany county, shall be
satisfied, after a hearing and the examination of testi-
mony, that the said James McAnally, did actually exe-
cute a bond as constable, satisfactory to two justices of
the peace, and that the bond was subsequently lost by
tine of the same justices.

Provisoes.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from and after its passage.

In force.