RECORDS, BURNT.

RECORDS, BURNT.

AN ACT for the benefit and relief of the Citizens of Worcester County ,
and all persons concerned in the Records thereof, which may have been
destroyed by the burning of the Court-house of the said County. —1835,
ch. 279.

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WHEREAS, in the destruction of the court-house of Worces-
ter county, by fire, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-
four, many of the records of the said county were burned, and
it is apprehended that from the unfortunate occurrence exten-
sive evil may ensue unless prevented by legislation ; there-
fore,

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 tying and being in Worcester county, or other instru-
ment 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 recorded again,

Deed may
be recorded

and the clerk of Worcester 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 instrument en-
dorsed on the said deed or deeds or other instrument of writ-
ing, in a well bound book in folio for that purpose, and 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 instrument of
writing, make an endorsement of such second enrollment,
and also the folio of the book in which the same shall be en-
rolled, and shall put his name thereto, which enrollment shall

Clerk re-
quired to
record.

be made at the expense and cost of the person or persons re-
quiring the same, and the deed or deeds or other instruments
of writing, 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.

Cost.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person or persons hav-
ing possession of any bill of sale, mortgage or other instruments
of writing, relating to personal property, that appears to have
been heretofore recorded in Worcester county, and the record
thereof has been destroyed, may have the same enrolled again,
and the clerk of Worcester county court is hereby required 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 same, and
the same when so recorded shall have the same effect and

Convey-
ances.