T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 192.

AN ACT to make valid a deed from the Llangollen
Mining Company to John Whitefield.

Passed March
8, 1856.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General Assembly
that on the twentieth day of September, one thou-
sand eight hundred and fifty four, the Llangollen
Mining Company, executed their deed to John
Whitefield, of Allegany county, purporting to con-
vey a certain parcel of land to said Whitefield, lying
and being in said county, and which said deed was
regularly recorded in Liber H. R. No. 12, folio
180, one of the land records of said county, and
which said deed is signed by Clement March,
President of said Mining Company, and the cor-
porate seal of said company affixed by the said
President; and whereas, doubts exist of the valid-
ity of said deed by reason of certain defects in the
acknowledgement of the said deed; therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the acknowledgement of the
aforesaid deed from the Llangollen Mining Company
to the said John Whitefield, be and the same is hereby rat-
ified and made as valid in law to all intents and purposes
if said deed contained a power of attorney from the
Llangollen Mining Company, authorising and em-
powering the said Clement March to make said ac-
knowledgement, as if the 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 Whitefield under and by virtue of said deed, is
made as valid and good in law, as if said deed and
acknowledgement were made and executed in accord-

Made valid.

ance with the laws of this State; Provided, nothing
in this act contained, shall in any manner affect the
rights of bona fide purchasers or creditors, who 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 its passage.

In force.