visions of this Act, the said Clerk is hereby au-
thorized and directed to pay the same to the Treas-
urer of Baltimore county and take his receipt for
the same, and the said Treasurer is hereby - and
required to place the amount or amounts thus re-
ceived, to the credit of the fund authorized and ap-
propriated by this Act, and such excess of fees if
any should accrue are hereby dedicated and ap-
propriated to that object, and the Comptroller of
the State is hereby directed upon the presentation
to him by the said Clerk of such receipt or receipts
from the said Treasurer for such excess of fees to
settle the accounts and credits of the said Clerk
accordingly.

Sec. 14. And be it enacted, That it shall be the
duty of any person who has possession of any
book of proceedings or papers belonging to or
which was used by any of the former Commission-
ers of records, to deliver the same to the Commis-
sioner appointed by this Act, and the said Com-
missioner is hereby authorized and required to ex-
amine the books and proceedings and work done or
ordered to be done by any or either of the Com-
missioners of records heretofore appointed and to
supply any omission if any there be, and the ac-
tion of the said Commissioner in the premises shall
be as valid and have the same effect in law as if
such omission had not occurred, and during the
existence or at the close of this commission all the
partially burnt indexes, records, dockets, papers
and instruments of writing which may have been
renewed by the substitution of others correspondent
thereto, shall be properly endorsed by the said
Commissioner, and after such endorsement it shall
be the duty of the Clerk of the said Circuit Court
to file the same away to be preserved as other re-
cords and papers are preserved in said office.

Records of
former Com-
missioners.

Sec. 15. And be it enacted, That if the Commis-
sioner herein appointed shall have access to all the
books and papers which have been deposited or
filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Ap-
peals of this State and which contain extracts from
any deed, mortgage or instrument of writing
which has been recorded in any of the land or
mortgage records of Baltimore county, and the
said Commissioner shall copy or cause to be copied
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May have ac-
cess to records.