E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1852.

take the same, and returnable to any of the late County
Courts, be, and the same are made by this act return-
able to the several Circuit Courts, to be proceeded in
and disposed of by the said Circuit Courts, in the same
manner as if the same were made returnable to the said
Circuit Court, after the qualifications of the judges of
said Circuit Courts, and after the passage of this act.

CHAP. 32.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the court of How-
ard district, of Anne Arundel county, shall be held and
taken to be a County Court, within the meaning and
intention of, and for all the purposes mentioned and
embraced within this act.

Howard Dis-
trict court.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That this act shall have
effect from and after the time of its passage.

CHAPTER 32.

In force.

AN ACT to make valid a deed from John Mason and
Asa Langrall, Administrators of Job White, to Seth
Stone.

Passed Feb.
20, 1852.

WHEREAS, Seth Stone, of the city of Baltimore,
has shewn to this General Assembly that John Mason
and Asa Langrall, administrators of Job White, exe-
cuted to the said Seth Stone, a certain deed of lease-
hold property, situate in Baltimore city, which deed
was duly recorded among the land records of Baltimore
county, in Liber, T. K., No. 336, folio 215, &c., and
bearing date the twentieth day of November, in the
year eighteen hundred and forty-three; and whereas,
at appears that said deed was duly acknowledged before
two Justices of the Peace, in and for the city of Balti-
more, but in the acknowledgment of said deed it omit-
ted to state, that the parties described as, and professing
to execute such deed were known to the subscribing
Justices as such parties; and whereas, also, the ac-
knowledgment described said subscribing Justices as of
Baltimore county, when, in fad. they were and should
have been described as of Baltimore city; Therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the said deed be and the same is
hereby declared to be as valid and effectual in law as
if in the certificate of acknowledgment thereof, it had
been duly certified that the Justices of the Peace, be-
fore whom the said deed was acknowledged, were Jus-

Deed made
valid.