MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                      1175

"Clerks of Circuit Courts and Superior Court of Baltimore City,"
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

51.

Any person, firm or corporation offering for recordation in the
clerk's office of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, or in the
clerks' offices of the circuit courts for the several counties, any deed,
mortgage, lease, agreement, conditional sales contract, chattel mort-
gage, or any other recordable instrument upon a printed form shall
cause said printed form to be printed in not less than eight-point
type, in black letters and upon white paper of sufficient weight and
thickness as to be clearly readable. If such recordable instrument
shall be wholly typewritten or typewritten on a printed form, the
typewriting shall be in black letters, in not less than elite type and
upon white paper of sufficient weight or thickness as to be clearly
readable. Provided, however, that the provisions relating to the size
type and color shall not apply to manuscript covers or backs cus-
tomarily used on documents offered for recording. The recording
charges for any such instrument not conforming to the requirements
of this section but offered for recordation shall be three times the
charge now allowed by law for the recording of the same. In those
clerks' offices where such instruments are photostated or micro-
filmed no instrument upon which a rider or riders have been placed
or attached in such a manner as to obscure, hide or cover any other
part of the instrument shall be offered or received for record, [and
no instrument not otherwise readily subject to photostating or micro-
filming shall be offered or received for record until a charge equal
to three times the fee now allowed by law for the recording of the
same shall have been paid to such clerk.] When any instrument is
not readily subject to photostating or microfilming it shall be re-
quired that an affidavit, black type on white paper, must be attached
and made a part of said instrument stating the kind of instrument,
the date, the parties to the transaction, description of the property
and all other pertinent data.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1969.

Approved May 2, 1969.

CHAPTER 473
(Senate Bill 683)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 51 (g)
of Article 25 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1968 Supple-
ment), title "County Commissioners," subtitle "County Treas-
urers," making provision for the salary of the present and next
future Treasurer of Charles County and making further provision
for the payment by the County Commissioners of Charles County
of certain necessary and proper expenses of the Treasurer of the
County.