INDEX TO LAND RECORDS*

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more, in the proportions to be borne by the city and county as
aforesaid, respectively, shall be levied by said commissioners
and the mayor and city council of Baltimore, respectively, as
aforesaid; and the said clerk, out of the moneys so to be levied,
shall be paid quarterly, the amount that shall become due to
him on account of the making of said index; the voucher of
which dues, shall be the certificate of the said chief judge, and
his direction for payment of the same.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of said
clerk of Baltimore county court, for the time being, henceforth,
to keep up promptly and regularly as conveyances or writings
of or relating to land, shall by said clerk be received to be re-
corded, a general alphabetical index, in terms and form as the
index herein before referred to, the records of all such con-
veyances or writings as shall henceforth be so received to be
recorded as aforesaid ; and that each book of said index, shall
embrace the period of at least ten years for every or any letter

Duly of
clerk in
future.

to which such book may be appropriated ; and that for his ser-
vices in keeping such record, the said clerk shall be entitled to
have the sum of ten cents for each of such conveyances or
writings recorded by him, in addition to the amount now
chargeable for recording such conveyance or writing.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, passed at December session, eighteen hundred
and thirty-one, chapter eighty-six, entitled, an Act to authorize the
making a general Alphabetical Index of the Land Records of Baltimore
County, from the year seventeen hundred and ninety-nine inclusive,
and to keep up such Index henceforth. — 1833, ch. 74.

Compensa-
tion.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
for the services required to be performed by the fourth section
of the act to which this is a supplement, the clerk of Baltimore
county court shall be entitled to have and receive the sum of
twenty cents for each of the conveyances or writings in said
section mentioned, in addition to the amount chargeable for re-
cording such conveyance or writing, and in place of the com-
pensation of ten cents provided by said section for said services.

A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to authorize the
making a general Alphabetical Index of the Land Records of Baltimore
County, from the year seventeen hundred and ninety-nine inclusive,
and to keep up such Index henceforth. — 1834, ch. 72.

Compensa-
tion in-
creased.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the commissioners of Baltimore county, and the mayor
and city council of Baltimore, respectively be, and they are
hereby authorized and required to levy and collect, yearly in
advance, their respective portions of the amount which may be
reported as the probable amount of the expense of the index,
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Levy in

advance.