T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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tive, as if said affidavit had been made by all of said
mortgagees or grantees named therein.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in all cases in
which the mortgagees or mortgagee, grantees or gran-

tee named in any mortgage or bill of sale shall not
reside in the county or city, in which it is necessary
that the said mortgage or bill of sale shall be re-
corded, it shall and may be lawful for the agent or
attorney of the mortgagees or mortgagee, grantees
or grantee named in said mortgage or bill of sale, to
make affidavit to be endorsed on said mortgage or
bill of sale, that the consideration therein set forth
is true and bona fide, and that the said agent or at-
torney in addition to the affidavit last mentioned, shall
make affidavit, also to 'be endorsed upon said mort-
gage or bill of sale, that he is the agent or attorney
of the mortgagees or mortgagee, grantees or grantee
named in said mortgage or bill of sale, and authorised
by said mortgagees or mortgagee, grantees or gran-
tee to make said affidavit, which last mentioned affi-
davit shall be sufficient proof of such agency or pow-
er of attorney.

Agent or at-
torney to make
affidavit.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 114.

In force.

AN ACT to authorize the Commissioner of the
Land Office to issue a warrant of resurvey and
patent for certain lands in Allegany county.

Passed Mar.
8, 1856.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to the General
Assembly of Maryland, by James W. Bacon, the
only acting executor of the last will and testament
of Romulus Riggs, late of the city of Philadel-
phia, deceased, that the said Romulus Riggs in his
life time and at his death, had an equitable title by
purchase to a certain portion of a tract of land in
Allegany county in this State, called "Western Con-
nection," in virtue of a sale thereof made by the late
Roger Perry, under a decree of the Court of Chan-

Preamble,