THOMAS H. HICKS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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in undisputed possession of the land and pre-
mises therein mentioned, ever since, and still
continues in such possession, and has on the
faith of the said deed and possession incurred
much expense in improving the said property ;
and it is deemed but just that this act should
be passed;

SECTION 1. Therefore, be it, enacted by the Gener-
al Assembly of Maryland, That the deed made
on the twentieth day of February, A. D., eigh-
teen hundred and forty-nine, between Richard
Bowen, of the State of Virginia of the first part,
Thomas H. Robinson, teacher, of the city of Bal-
timore of the second part, and Elizabeth Robin-
son, wife of the said Thomas H. Robinson, of the
third part, recorded among the land records of
Baltimore county, in Liber H. M. F. No. 8,
Folio 29, be and the same is hereby made as good
and valid in law, to all intents and purposes, as
if the same had been regularly executed and ac-
knowledged, and the execution and acknowledg-

Made valid.

ment thereof regularly certified; Provided,
nothing in this act contained shall affect the
rights of bona fide, purchasers without notice, who
became such before the passage of this act.

Proviso.

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

CHAPTER 83 .

In force.

AN ACT to provide for a General Index of Judg-
ments in Talbot County.

Passed Febru-

ary 23, 1858.

WHEREAS, the practice heretofore pursued in the
Circuit Court for Talbot county, of indexing
judgments in the name of the plaintiff only, is
calculated to produce inconvenience and dis-
turb titles; to remedy which,

Preamble.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the clerk of the said

Clerk autho-
rised.