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An Act to authorise the recording of certain Deeds of Manumission. 1834 [108] (1834)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmd0159 and id is 1 raw text is: 1834. LAWS 6F MARYLAND. ouna. 9 after payment, or tender of payment, of the damages as a- foresaid, the said commissioners, or a majority of them, ire hereby authorised and directed to remove the same without delty. Auntlofty to cIwe Sec. 5. Jid be it enacted, That the said commissioners shall have authority, after having extended East street as hereinbefore provided, to close up the street heretofore opened and running from East to Prince George.strecet at the time said East street was obstructed. aseat Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of nets heretofore passed, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. CHAPTER 95. Fanredet% as,133a .9 act to authorise the recording of certain Deed of .lla- nulntission. Usetions o rdcor Section 1. Be it enacted by the General A/ssembly of .Ma- ryland, That the Clerk of Talbot County Court, be, and be is hereby authorised to record the three several deeds of manumission from Anna Maria Tilghman, each dated the eighteenth day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty.two, one in favor of her slave Henry Wright, the other in favor of her slave Anna Maria Wright, andI the other in favor of her slave Maria Wright; and that said deeds, when recorded, shall be as valid and effectual for every purpose, as if they had respectively been duly re. corded within the time prescribed by law; Provided, they respectively be recorded before the first day of September next. Demb confluasl See. 2. Ind wlhereas, it is doubtful whether the certifi- cate of the acknowledgment of the grantor, endorsed on the paper contrining the deeds of manumission in favor of said slaves, Henry and Anna Maria, is effectual in law, as to each of said deeds, though apparently intended to com- prehend both;-Therefore, be it further enacted, that said deeds, when respectively recorded as aforesaid, shall be as effectual as if the same had been duly acknowledged, and the a.knowledgment thereof had been, respectively, certi- fied.

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