T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 20.

AN ACT to make valid the acknowledgment of a deed
from George A. Bender and wife, and David Harry,
to Lewis Heist.

Passed
Mar. 1, 1854.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, the ac-
knowledgment of the deed from George A. Bender and
Jemima his wife of Washington county, in the State
of Maryland, and David Harry of the State of Ohio,
to Lewis Heist of Washington county, aforesaid, bear-
ing date the seventeenth day of October, eighteen hun-
dred-fifty three, which said acknowledgment by David
Harry, was taken in the State of Ohio, before a pro-
bate judge of Fairfield county in said State, instead of
before a judge of a court of record and of law, be and
the same is hereby declared to be as valid and effectual
in law, as if said acknowledgment had been made in
conformity to the laws regulating acknowledgments of
deeds made out of this State, for land situated therein.

CHAPTER 21.

Made valid.

AN ACT for the benefit of Mary Jane Barkley of Balti-
more city.

Passed
Mar. 1, 1854.

WHEREAS, it appears to this General Assembly, that
Mary Jane Barkley, intermarried in the year eighteen
hundred and forty-nine, with a certain Joseph Bark-
ley, and acquired demands as his wife, which she is
anxious to release for a stipulated sum in gross, which
may be agreed upon by said married parties; There-
fore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Mary Jane Barkley wife of Joseph
Barkley, is hereby vested with full powers to release
all her demands both at law and in equity which,
she holds by virtue of her intermarriage with said Joseph
Barkley, or by virtue of any agreement made before
said marriage, which said release, when duly executed
before a justice of the peace of the State of Maryland,

Power to re-
lease her de-
mand.