T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER. 253.

AN ACT to cure certain defects in sundry mortgages
and deeds, and bills of sale executed by Commo-
dore P. Donoho to James R. Donoho and Joel
Cornwell, of Dorchester county.

Passed March
10, 1856.

WHEREAS, it appears to this General Assembly that
a certain Commodore P. Donoho executed sundry
deeds of mortgage and mortgage bills of sale to James
R. Donoho and Joel Cornwell, to secure them against
loss and injury for having entered surety on certain
guardian bonds, and it appearing that said deeds of
mortgage and mortgage bills of sale are defective in
the acknowledgements, and for want of due form,
and want of the affidavit required by law, and it is
unjust that any deed or bill of sale, especially those
given for such a purpose, should be void, or fail to
effect the security so intended by reason of such
errors; therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That all the deeds of mortgage or
mortgage bills of sale executed by the said Commo-
dore P. Donoho to James R. Donoho and Joel Corn-
well, be and they are hereby declared as good and
valid, as if they had in every respect been acknowl-
edged according to law, and the affidavit required by
law had been made at the time of its execution and in
due form, provided that no bona fide purchaser with-
out notice shall be affected thereby.

To be valid.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from its passage.

In force.