EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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be and the same is hereby transferred and conveyed to the

Board of County School Commissioners of Cecil County, to be

used and appropriated or sold by them, and the proceeds thereof

be placed with the general school fund of said Cecil County.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1904.

CHAPTER 361.

AN ACT to amend Article 3 of the Code of Public Local Laws

of the State of Maryland, title "Baltimore County," sub-title

"Clerk," by adding an additional section providing for the

preservation and recording of plats filed in his office, to fol-

low Section 30 of said Article and to be known as Section

3oA.

SECTION T. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land. That a new section be added to Article 3 of the Code of

Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Baltimore County," sub-

Baltimore
County.

title "Clerk," to follow Section 30, to be known as Section 3oA

of said Article and to read as follows :

3oA. It shall be the duty of said Clerk to record and pre-

serve all plats heretofore or hereafter filed in his office in tin

County Clerk

tubes three inches in diameter and twenty-four inches in length,

to preserve
all plats and

proper index or indexes thereto, the expense in the case of plats

index same.

heretofore filed to be charged as one of the expenses of his

office, and of those hereafter filed or left for record to be

paid by those filing or leaving said plat for record, and

all plats so left for record and endorsed and placed in

tubes unnumbered and indexed as aforesaid, shall be al-

lowed to have been recorded, and are hereby declared to

be records belonging to said Clerk's office and shall have the

same effect and validity as if recorded among the land records,

or the mortgage records, or the judicial records of said Clerk's

office as the nature of the case may require, and certified copies

of plats so recorded as aforesaid shall be receivable in evi-

dence to the same extent as certified copies of other records

in said office; and in the event of the loss or destruction in

whole or in part of the original of said plats, certified copies

Certified

of copies previously certified shall be substituted therefor, and

copies of
same.

may be received in evidence, and shall have all the effect and

validity of certified copies of the originals as aforesaid.