180

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Forms.

has the defendant paid the same since the death of
the said W. K.

CLXIV. That one J. M. on, &c., (date,) by his
promissory note now over-due, promised to pay to W.
K., or order, in his life-time, $ ———— , sixty days af-
ter date; and W. K. in his life-time endorsed the
same to W. H. in his life-time; and the said note
was duly presented for payment and was dishonored,
whereof the said W. K. in his life-time had notice,
but did not pay the said note, nor has the said de-
fendant since the death of the said W. K. paid the
same.

To take effect.

138. This act shall go into effect on the first clay
of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, but
shall have no effect on suits which may be then pen-
ding in any court of this State.

CHAPTER 113.

Passed Mar.
8, 1856.

AN ACT amendatory of an act entitled, an act to
prevent frauds in mortgages and bills of sale, pass-
ed at December session eighteen hundred and for-
ty-six, chapter two hundred and seventy-one.

Made valid.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That whenever any deed of mortgage
or bill of sale shall be executed in favor of several
persons jointly, the affidavit of any one of the mort-
gagees or grantees named in said mortgage or bill of
sale, endorsed on said mortgage or bill of sale, that
the consideration therein set forth is true and bona
fide, shall render such mortgage or bill of sale as
valid and effective as if said affidavit had been made
by all of said mortgagees or grantees as now required
by the original act of which this is amendatory, and
that any mortgage or bill of sale executed since the
passage of the said original act, which shall show
upon its face, that the said affidavit has been made
by one of the mortgagees or grantees named in said
mortgage or bill of sale, shall be as valid and effec-