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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

discretion of said Court or Justice, and in default
of payment, shall be imprisoned for a period of
not less than three nor more than ten days, and
for the third offence, he or they shall he fined not
less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars,
and in default of payment, shall he imprisoned for
not less than ten nor more than thirty days, or
may be both fined and imprisoned in the discre-
tion of the Court or Justice, one half of any such
fine shall go to the informer and the balance shall
be paid over to the public school fund of said
county, and the party convicted shall pay all costs
of prosecution.

CHAPTER 428.

Passed March

9, 1858.

AN ACT to make valid a Deed from Morris S.
Wickersham, and wife, to John Plumley, Jr.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General As-
sembly of Maryland, That one Morris S. Wick-
ersham, and M. Catharine, his wife, did, on
the twenty-sixth day of June, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, exe-
cute and deliver to a certain John Plumley, Jr.,
of Cecil county, a deed of conveyance for a cer-
tain piece or parcel of land therein mentioned,
lying and being in Cecil county, aforesaid, And
whereas, the said deed was executed and ac-
knowledged before a Commissioner of the State
of Maryland, to take acknowledgments in the
State of Pennsylvania, who was not at the time
of taking such acknowledgment authorised by
the laws of this State, to take acknowledg-
ments of deeds of land lying in this State, And
whereas, the said John Plumley, Jr., failed
to have the said deed recorded within the time
prescribed by law for the recording of Deeds
of Conveyance of Real Estate, Therefore,