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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 495.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article 54 of the

Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Land

Office," sub-title "Commissioner of the Land Office, His

Powers and Duties," to be designated as Section 2 A, pro-

viding for the appointment of an index clerk of the Preroga-

tive Court and High Court of Chancery Records.

WHEREAS, It is proposed to remove all the Prerogative

Removal of

valuable

Court Records and Documents from the Register of Wills'

records, etc.

Office of Anne Arundel County to the Land Office of Mary-

land, and there still remains twenty-one volumes of the pro-

ceedings of the Prerogative Court not yet indexed ; and

WHEREAS, The indexes to the one hundred and seventy-nine

Certain in-

volumes of the Records of the High Court of Chancery, and the

dexes
imperfect.

twelve thousand bundles of cases of said court in the Land

Office are imperfect and unreliable, rendering access to the

titles to land therein contained inaccessible ; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That another section be added to Article 54 of the Code

of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Land Office," sub-

title "Commissioner of the Land Office, His Powers and

Duties," to be designated as Section 2A.

2A. The Commissioner of the Land Office shall have power

Clerk to com-

to appoint a clerk to complete the indexing of the Prerogative

plete index-
ing.

Court Records, indexing the Records of the Higher Court of

Chancery and such other indexing in the Land Office as may

be necessary, and shall receive a salary of one thousand dol-

lars per annum, and the sum of one thousand dollars, or as

much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated an-

nually for said purpose. Said clerk shall be under the control

of the Commissioner of the Land Office, and subject to re-

moval at any time, as other clerks in the Land Office.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 12, 1904.