T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE.GOVERNOR

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by H. F. Talmadge, President of said mining
company, and the corporate seal of said company
affixed by the said president; and whereas doubts
exist of the validity of said deed by reason of cer-
tain defects in the acknowledgement of the said
deed, Therefore.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, Thai the acknowledgement of the afore-
said deed from the Llangollen Mining Company to
the said John Kight, be and the same is hereby rat-
ified, and made as valid in law to all intents and pur-
poses as if said deed contained a power of Attorney
from the Llangollen Mining Company, authorising
and empowering the said H. F. Talmadge to make
said acknowledgement, and if said acknowledgement
were made in conformity to all and every of the laws
of this State regulating the acknowledgement of deeds
by corporate bodies.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the title of said
John Kight, under and by virtue of said deed, is made
as valid and good in law as if said deed and ac-
knowledgement were made and executed in accord-

Made valid.

ance with the laws of this State. Provided, how-
ever, that nothing in this act contained shall affect the
rights of bona fide purchasers or creditors without no-
tice, who may have become so before the passage of
this act.

Proviso.

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

CHAPTER 183.

In force.

AN ACT prescribing when, where, and before whom,
the Governor of the State shall take the oath of
office.

Passed March
8, 1856.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, the Gov-
ernor elect of the State of Maryland, shall take and
subscribe the oath of his office, as prescribed in the

Oath of office.