E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1852.

CHAPTER 111.

CHAP. 112.

AN ACT to give Common Law Jurisdiction to the
Judges of the several Circuit Courts out of court,
and to confirm suck Acts as have been performed
by them before the passage of this act.

Passed March
24, 1852.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That each of the circuit judges of the
several Circuit Courts of this State, shall, out of court,
within his Judicial Circuit, have, use and exercise, all
and singular, the power, jurisdiction and authority, that
might, or could have been done by any judge of the
late County Courts of this State, within his Judicial
District.

Jurisdiction
out of court.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That such acts as have
been performed and done by any of the circuit judges

of the several Circuit Courts of this State out of court,
since their qualification as circuit judges, be, and the
same are hereby ratified and continued, and shall have
the same validity and effect as if this act had been in
force at the time of the qualification of said circuit
judges, or any of them.

Acts done ra-
tified.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from and after its passage.

CHAPTER 112.

In force.

AN ACT to make valid the acknowledgment of a
deed from Nathan H. Haller to Paul Hammond.

Passed March
19, 1852.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That the deed from Nathan H. Haller to
Paul Hammond, bearing dale the twenty-second day

of December, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, and
recorded in Liber, I. N., number 4, folio 657, one of
the land records of Washington county, shall be consi-
dered, and the same is hereby declared to be as valid
and effectual to all intents and purposes as if the jus-
tices of the peace, before whom the acknowledgment

of said deed was made, had stated in said acknowledg-
ment that they knew the grantor to be the person
named, described as, and professing to be, the party
grantor in the deed.

Deed made
valid.