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in this act contained, shall be construed to affect
the rights or interests of any bona fide creditors
or purchasers for valuable consideration, which
accrued prior to the passage of this act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect on the day on which it shall be
passed.

CHAPTER 225.

In force.

AN ACT to make valid a deed from John Lewis,
attorney of Mary Turner, to Adam Hilt.

Passed March

3, 1858.

WHEREAS, a certain John Lewis, as attorney for
Mary Turner, of Green county, Pennsylvania,
did, on the twenty-eighth day of July, in the
year eighteen hundred and fifty-three, execute
a deed of bargain and sale to Henry Hilt, of
Harford county, Maryland, for certain lands
therein described, which deed is duly recorded
in liber A. L. J., No. 3, folio 163, one of the
land records of Harford county, and is sup-
posed to be defective, in consequence of the
letter of attorney, under which it was made
and executed, having been acknowledged be-
fore Justices of the Peace of the State of Penn-
sylvania; Therefore,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the said deed, be and the
same is hereby declared to be as valid and effec-
tual in law, as if the said acknowledgment had
been made in conformity with the then existing
laws of this State; Provided, that nothing in
this act contained, shall prejudice the rights or
interests of bona fide purchasers or creditors, who
became such prior to the passage of this act.

Made valid.

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

In force.