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M. Duncauson, to Polock, of the lots mentioned in the decree. It purported to be a deed from Marcia Burns, by her guardian, W. M. D., to Isaac Polock, in fee, and recited the substance of the proceedings and decree; Skechers and averred that the security had been approved, the mortgages duly executed, and the interest paid up. It concluded thus : " In witness whereof the said Marcia Burns, by William M. Duncauson, her guardian in this case, hath hereunto set her hand and seal the day and year above written." It was signed "William M. Duncauson, guardian of Marcia Burns," and was sealed.The commissioner, Alexander White, Esq., who took the acknowledgment, certified that said William M. Duncauson, guardian of Marcia Burns, as aforesaid, acknowledged the instrument to be " his act and deed as guardian as aforesaid, and thereby the act and deed of the said Marcia." The deed was duly recorded.The plaintiffs claimed title under this moncler deed.The defendant's counsel, Mr. Marbury and Mr. R. S. Coxe, objected to the admission in evidence of the record of the proceedings and decree in the case of moncler clothing Polock v. Burns; and contended that after the 27th of February, 1801, when Congress began to exercise exclusive legislation over the district, the Chancellor of Maryland moncler jackets could not pass any decree which should affect lands in the district. That although the suit was commenced before this part of the district was completely severed from the State of Maryland, yet no decree, passed after that separation, could be executed here, except in the manner provided in the 13th section of the Act of the 27th February, 1801, " concerning the District of Columbia," namely, by execution issuing from this Court upon an exemplication of the record of the moncler jacket proceedings in the suit in the Court of Chancery of Maryland. That the decree could not operate here proprio vigore. The deed from Duncauson to Polock was also objected to, onBank of United States v. Van Ness and Jones.the ground that the guardian's authority had ceased by the transfer of the jurisdiction from the State of Maryland to the United States; for the same reason that letters of administration taken out in Maryland before the separation, did not authorize the administrator to sue in this Court after the separation. Sears v. Fenwick, 1 Cranch, 259.It was also contended, that the deed was not executed in the name of the infant, Marcia Shape ups shoes Burns, but in moncler outlet Duncauson's own name ; he signed his own name only, and affixed his own seal only, and moncler jacket sale acknowledged it to be his own deed only, - not the deed of the infant.
