T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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in Liber E. S., No. 4, folios 288 and 289, one of the
land records of Frederick county; and whereas the
acknowledgment of said deed by the said Archibald
Etzler and Sarah his wife, and Lloy Etzler and
Hannah his wife, was taken before and certified by
a single justice of the peace, as is prescribed by the
laws of their respective States, and only certified to
by the county clerk, who certifies to the fact, that
the persons taking the same are acting and qualified
justices of the peace; Therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, the said
deed shall be, and the same is hereby made as valid
and effectual in law as if the same had been regularly
and properly acknowledged by the said non-resident
grantors, and the proper certificates had been thereunto
attached, as required by the laws of Maryland for the
acknowledgment of deeds by non-resident grantors.

CHAPTER 113.

Deed made

valid.

AN ACT amendatory of an act passed January session,
eighteen hundred and fifty-three, chapter four hun-
dred and five, entitled an act in favor of William C.
Pierce, of Montgomery county.

Passed
Mar. 9, 1854.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the circuit court for Montgomery
county be, and it is hereby required and directed, at
the March term of said court, next ensuing, to hear
and finally determine a matter therein depending upon
an appeal, authorised by the act to which this is
amendatory, between William C. Pierce and the county
commissioners of said county, relative to the laying out
and constructing a public road by the said commis-
sioners.

Directed to
to hear.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if the said Pierce
shall not have prosecuted and taken his appeal from
the said decision, as authorised by the said original act,
at the passage of this act, then the said Pierce shall be
forever barred from taking his appeal, and the said com-

Prosecution of
appeal.