JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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and extracts, and make searches for the same when

so required, and shall receive and retain therefor

fees at the same rate now charged for copies of and

searches for other papers in his office.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That section fifty-five of

Repealing and

article eighteen of the code of Public General Laws

re-enacting

be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted

so as to read as follows :

55. The said Clerk shall make the entry aforesaid

on good royal writing paper, such as is commonly

used in record books, each sheet measuring in length

nineteen inches, and in breadth twelve inches, with

a margin in blank of about half an inch at the sides.

Record books

top and bottom of each page, and shall transmit the

same on or before the first day of June in each year

to the Commissioner of the Land Office.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That section forty of art-

icle eighteen of the code of Public General Laws be,

Repealed.

and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the Commissions

of the Land Office shall receive and carefully file

among the records of his office, all extracts of deeds

To receive and
file

transferred to him by virtue of this act, and all such

as shall hereafter be transmitted to him by the Clerks.

of the Circuit Courts of this State, and when he shall

have received a sufficient number of such extracts

from the same county to form a record book of the

To be bound.

proper size, he shall cause the same to be well and

substantially bound in leather, and placed among

the records of his office ; and the Comptroller of the

Treasury is hereby directed to issue his warrant for

such sum or sums of money as from time to time

may be necessary for the cost of such binding, upon

the certificate of the correctness of the same given by

the said Commissioner of the Land Office.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the sum of forty

Appropriation.

dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is

hereby appropriated to defray the expenses of the
transfer of books directed by this act.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

In force

effect from and after the date of its passage.

Approved, March 10, 1874.