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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

validity of said deed by reason of certain defects
in the acknowledgement of the said deed; There-
fore,

Made valid.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the acknowledgement of the afore-
said deed from the Llangollen Mining Company, to
the said Cornelius Kight, be and the same is hereby
ratified and made as valid in law, to all intents and
purposes, as if said deed contained a power of Attor-
ney from the Llangollen Mining Company, authorising
and empowering the said Clement March to make
said acknowledgements if the said acknowledgement
were made in conformity to all and every of the Jaws
of this State, regulating the acknowledgement of
deeds by corporate bodies.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the title of said
Cornelius Kight, under and by virtue of said deed, is
made as valid and good in law as if said deed and

Proviso.

acknowledgement were made and executed in accord-
ance with the laws of this State. Provided, noth-
ing in this act contained shall in any manner affect
the rights of bona fide purchasers or creditors, with-
out notice, who may have become so before the pas-
sage of this act.

In force.

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

CHAPTER 182.

Passed March
8, 1856.

AN ACT, entitled an act to make valid a deed from
the Llangollen Mining Company to John Kight.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly,
that on the twenty second day of May, one thou-
sand eight hundred and fifty four, the Llangollen
Mining Company executed their deed to John Kight,
of Allegany county, purporting to convey a certain
parcel of land to said Kight lying and being in said
county,and which said deed was regularly recorded
in Liber H. R. No. 12, folio 185, one of the land re-
cords of said county, and which said deed is signed