RECORDS, DEEDS AND WILLS BURNT.

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RECORDS, DEEDS AND WILLS BURNT.
AN ACT for the benefit and relief of Saint Mary's County, and all persons
concerned in the Records thereof, lately burned.— 1831, ch. 175.

WHEREAS, in the recent destruction of the court-house of
Saint Mary's county, by fire, nearly all the records of said
county were burnt, and it is apprehended, that from the unfor-
tunate occurrence, serious and extensive evil may ensue, unless
prevented by timely legislation ; therefore,

Preamble.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That any person or persons, having any original deed or deeds,
for land lying and being in Saint Mary's county, or other in-
strument of writing relating to lands in said county, which
shall appear to have been recorded in said county, and the
record thereof has been destroyed, may be authorized to have
the said deed or deeds, or other instruments of writing re-
corded again, and the clerk of Saint Mary's county is hereby
required upon application of the party or parties interested, to
have the same deed or deeds, or other instrument of writing
recorded, together with the endorsement of the former enrol-

Authority
to again
record
deeds, &c.

ment, endorsed on said deed or deeds, or other instrument of
writing, in a well bound book, in folio, for that purpose, and

Record
books.

to be regularly alphabeted, in the name of all the parties, and
in the name of the lands, and quantity of acres, and the said
clerk shall, on the back of the said deed or deeds, or instru-

Alphabeted.

ment of writing, make an endorsement of such second enrol-
ment, and also, the folio of the book in which the same shall

Endorse-
ment

be enrolled, and shall put his name thereto, which enrolment
shall be made at the expense and cost of the person or persons
requiring the same.

Compensa-
tion.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person or persons in-
terested in any lands in the county aforesaid, and the original
deed or deeds thereof, and the record thereof, have both been
burnt or destroyed, upon application to the clerk of the court
of appeals, for an extract or extracts of the said deed or deeds,
so as aforesaid destroyed, the clerk is hereby requested to fur-
nish to the party or parties applying for such extract or ex-
tracts, a copy or copies of the same, under the seal of his
office, at the cost and expense of the person or persons so
applying for the same as aforesaid, and the said person or per-
sons, may have the same extract or extracts recorded in Saint
Mary's county, and the clerk of Saint Mary's county upon
application is hereby required to have the extract or extracts

Abstracts
from the
records of
the court of
appeals.

aforesaid, recorded in the record books aforesaid ; and that the
same be alphabeted in the same manner that the deeds and
other instruments of writing are alphabeted, which said enrol-
ment shall be made at the expense and costs of the party or
parties requiring the same.
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May be
recorded.