THOMAS H. HICKS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 87.

AN ACT to make valid a deed to Nicholas V.
Browne.

Passed Febru-
ary 20, 1858.

WHEREAS, a certain John Perine, having by a
bond of conveyance, duly acknowledged and re-
corded, bound himself to convey and assign to
Nicholas V. Browne, certain leasehold property
in the city of Baltimore, did afterwards, as in
the performance of the condition of said bond,
execute and deliver an indenture between him-
self, as party of the first part, and the said
Nicholas V. Browne, as party of the second
part, bearing date the third day of June, in the
year, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and re-
corded in Liber A. W. B., No. 400, folio 481,
&c. , one of the Land Records of Baltimore
county; And whereas, the Justices of the Peace
before whom the said indenture or deed was ac-
knowledged by the said John Perine, omitted to
state in their certificate of acknowledgment,
that they were satisfied of his identity with the
said grantor, and how they were so satisfied ;
so that the then existing requirements of law,
were by mistake not fulfilled in this respect;
Therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the said indenture or deed
is hereby declared and made to be valid and ope-
rative in law, and as effectual to all intents and
purposes, as if the acknowledgment thereof had
been in all respects legally and properly made and
certified; and all defects in the said acknowledg-

Made valid.

ment and certificate are hereby cured; Provided,
that nothing herein contained, shall be construed
to prejudice the rights of any purchaser, for val-
uable consideration, or any bona fide creditor,
whose interests or rights have accrued, since the
execution and acknowledgment of said deed or
indenture.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all titles de-
pending upon said deed or indenture, are hereby
made and declared to be as valid, as if the said
deed had been acknowledged in exact conformity
with all the provisions of law applicable thereto,

All titles made

valid.