ART. 18.] ST. MARY'S COUNTY. 789

to all intents and purposes as if the same had originally been
part thereof.

84. No corporation formed or established under the 79th sec-
tion of this article, shall exercise banking privileges or issue any
note, token, device, scrip or other evidence of debt, to be used as
currency; nor shall any such corporation have the power of con-
demning land for the tracks of such rail roads as they may con-
struct, or for any other purpose, and the General Assembly may
at any time modify, amend or annul the charter of any corpora-
tion formed under the said section.

85. The clerk of the Circuit Court for said county shall receive
the usual fees for recording such instrument, to be paid by the
parties applying therefor; and after the instrument of writing or
articles of association, or any amendments thereof, shall have
been recorded, they shall be duly certified to be recorded, and be
delivered over to the applicants, and a copy of the record, duly
certified, shall be at all times as good evidence as the original.

-RECORDS, BURNT.

86. A copy of any deed, mortgage, bill of sale, or will recorded,
in pursuance of the act of eighteen hundred and thirty-one,
chapter one hundred and seventy-five, or the act of the same
year, chapter one hundred and seventy-seven, and which has
been recorded by the clerk of the Circuit Court for St. Mary's
county, under the provisions of the said acts, shall be as avail-
able in evidence as a copy of either of said papers would have
been if the same had been taken from the original record books
which were burnt.

87. Any papers, entries, or dockets, which were made evidence
by the said acts mentioned in the preceding section, shall still bo
evidence as provided for in said acts.

EETAILERS.

88. No licensed retailer of spirituous liquors in said county,
shall be held to answer for any violation of law forbidding spirit-
uous liquors to be drunk in and about their premises, but such
prohibition shall be inoperative in said county.