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SAINT MARY'S COUNTY.

Such
records
made valid.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the deeds or deed, or other
instruments of writing, and the extracts aforesaid, when so as
aforesaid enrolled, shall have the same effect and operation in
law, to all intents and purposes, as if the records aforesaid, in
which the said deed or deeds, or other instruments of writing
were heretofore enrolled, had never been destroyed.

Extracts of
enrolled
deeds, &c.
to to made.

SEC 4. And be it enacted, That the clerk of Saint Mary's
county court be, and is hereby required, to cause extracts to
be made out of all deeds enrolled in his office, under the law
previous to the seventh day of March, seventeen hundred and
ninety-six ; and also, extracts of all deeds dated between that
time and the law of the fourth day of January, eighteen hundred
and seven, passed at November session, eighteen hundred and
six, chapter ninety, where the courses, metes and bounds, are
described in such deed, and not otherwise ; which said extracts,

Confirmed.

made out, transmitted and bound in the same manner as is di-
rected by the law of December session, eighteen hundred and
twenty -six, entitled, a supplement to the act, entitled, an act to
aid conveyances of land improperly enrolled, and for other
purposes, chapter two hundred and twenty-six, shall have the
same effect and operation in law, as other extracts regularly
transmitted under said law.

Bills of sale,
mortgages,
&c. to be
re-enrolled.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That any person or persons
having possession of any bill of sale, mortage or other instru-
ments of writing, relating to personal property, that appears to
have been heretofore recorded in Saint Mary's county, and the
record thereof has been destroyed, may have the same enrolled
again, and the clerk of Saint Mary's county court is hereby re-
quired to record the same, together with the endorsement
thereon of the former enrollment, in the record book aforesaid,
at the cost and expense of the party or parties requiring the

Made valid.

same, and the same, when so recorded, shall have the same
effect and operation in law, to all intents and purposes, as if
the records aforesaid, in which the said papers were heretofore
recorded, had never been destroyed.

Testimony
as to

validity.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted. That any person or persons
claiming any right to any personal property, by virtue of any
instrument of writing, which had been recorded in the county
aforesaid, and which, with the records thereof, has been des-
troyed, shall and may, upon application to any one of the com-
missioners appointed under and by virtue of the act of assembly,
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-
eight, entitled, an act to provide for taking testimony in civil
cases, in the county aforesaid, proceed to take such testimony
as the nature of the case will admit of, to establish the existence
and validity of any instrument of writing, so as aforesaid re-
corded and destroyed, and the right of property therein men-