T. WATKINS L1GON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the said deed from Stephen Whales
to Henry Elliott and Edward Thomas, shall be as good
and valid to all intents and purposes, as if the justices of
the peace who took the acknowledgment of the said
Whales, had certified that of their own knowledge, the
raid Stephen Whales was the same person who was rep-
resented as and professed to be the party grantor in said
deed, and had in every respect complied with the pro-
visions of the several acts of Assembly now in force in
reference to the duties of justices of the peace in taking
acknowledgments of deeds.

Deed made
valid.

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

CHAPTER 53.

In force.

AN ACT amendatory to the act of eighteen hundred and
two, chapter eighty-one, to promote the more general
diffusion of information respecting the proceedings of
the commissioners of Kent county.

Passed
Feb. 24, 1854.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That so much of the second section of
the act of eighteen hundred and two, chapter eighty-
one, as requires notice to be given by written statements
set up in the various election districts of the several
counties in this State, of all monies levied for county
purposes, be, and the same is hereby amended, so far
as the same relates to Kent county, so as to permit the
county commissioners of said county to cause said notice
to be given, either in the manner prescribed by said
section, or by advertisement in a newspaper printed in
said county, for at least three successive weeks, prior to
the first Wednesday of November next, and so in like

Act of 1802
amended.

manner in each and every year thereafter; Provided,
that not more than seventy dollars be allowed to any
paper for any one year.

Proviso.

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

In force.