THOMAS H. HICKS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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hereby waives to and in favor of the Western
Maryland Railroad Company any lien which it
may have acquired to and upon the lateral road
or branch known as the Green Spring Branch of
the Baltimore and Susquehanna or Northern Cen-
tral Railway Company, in virtue of the mortgage
executed by the Northern Central Railway Com-
pany to the State, and all interest and claim
which the State may have in said lateral road or
branch, in whatever manner the same may have
been acquired.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall

take effect from the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 406.

In force.

AN ACT to make valid a paper, executed as a
deed by Edwin R. Carvill to Emory Sudler, on
the fourteenth of April, eighteen hundred and
forty-eight or eighteen hundred and forty-nine,
for ten acres of land in Kent county, and to au-
thorise the same to be recorded among the land
records of said county.

Passed March

6, 1858.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That a deed or paper purporting
to be a deed from Edwin R. Carvill, Harriett A.
Carvill, George W. Hynson and George B. West-
cott, and signed and sealed by the said Edwin R.
Carvill, for the conveyance often acres of land in
Kent county, for the consideration of two hundred
dollars, as stated therein, be and the same is
hereby declared to be as valid and effectual, as if
the said Edwin R. Carvill, had executed and de-
livered the same in the presence of two witnesses,
and duly acknowledged the same before two justi-
ces of the peace of Kent county, and the said deed
or paper had been recorded among the land rec-
ords of said county, within six months from the
date of said deed or acknowledgment, and as if

Made valid.