T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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convey a certain parcel of land to said Lannon,
lying and being in Allegany county, and which
said deed was regularly recorded in Liber H. R.,
No. 11, folio 385, one of the land records of said
county; and whereas also, the said Llangollen Min-
ing Company executed a certain other deed to
William Lannon of Allegany county, purporting to
convey a certain parcel of land to said Lannon,
lying and being in Allegany county, which said
deed bears date the twenty-seventh day of June,
in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and is
duly recorded in Liber H. R., No. 11, folio 422,
one of the land records of said county; which two
several deeds are signed by H. F. Tallmadge,
president of the said company, and the corporate
seal of said company affixed by the said president;
and whereas doubt exists as to the validity of said
deeds by reason of certain defects in the acknow-
ledgment of the said deeds; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the acknowledgments of both
of said deeds be, and they are hereby, ratified and
made valid to all intents and purposes, as if said
deeds contained a power of attorney from the Llan-
gollen Mining Company authorising and empower-
ing the said H. F. Tallmadge to make said acknowl-
edgments, and as if said acknowledgments were made
in conformity to all and every of the laws of this
State regulating the acknowledgment of deeds by
corporate bodies.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the title of said
William Lannon, under and by virtue of said deeds,
is made as valid and good in law, as if said deeds
and acknowledgments were made and executed in

Made valid.

accordance with the laws of this State; Provided
however, that nothing in this act contained shall effect
the rights of bona fide purchasers or creditors with-
out notice, who may have become so before the pas-
sage of this act.

Proviso.

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

In force.