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442 His Excellency Thos H Hicks Esquire Govenor Among other the following Law was enacted to wit No 278 An Act to make alia a Bill of Sale from Thomas S Herbert to William Chapman Whereas Thomas S. Herbert of Howard District Anne Arundel County (now Howard County) did on the seventh day of March Eighteen hundred and fifty execute a bill of Sale for negro slaves Dan and Oliver to serve for a term of years to William Chapman of Baltimore County which Said Bill of Sale the said William Chapman failed to have recorded as required by law Therefore Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland That the Bill of Sale from the said Thomas S Hurbert to the said William Chapman be and the same is hereby made as valid and effective as if the said bill of sale had been recorded in time according to Law provided the said Bill of Sale be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Howard County within Two Months from the passage of this Act Section 2 And be it enacted That this act shall take effect from the date of its passage
I William A. Spencer Clerk of the Court of Appeals of Maryland do hereby Certify that the aforegoing is a full and true copy of the act of the General Assembly of Maryland of which it purports to be a copy as taken from the original engrossed bill deposited in and belonging to the office of the court of appeals aforesaid In Testimony Whereof I have |
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