THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

CHAPTER 279.

CHAP 279.

An act for the benefit and relief of the citizens of Wor-

Passed April 1,1836

cester county, and all persons concerned in the records

thereof, which may have been destroyed by the burn-

ing of the court house of the said comity.

WHEREAS, in the destruction of the court house of

Preamble

Worcester 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 un-

fortunate occurrence extensive evil may ensue unless

prevented by legislation: — Therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Deed may be re-

Maryland, That any person or persons having any

corded

original deed or deeds, for land lying and being in

Worcester county, or other instrument of writing re-

lating to lands in said county, which shall appear to

have been recorded in said county and the record there-

of has been destroyed, may be authorised to have the

said deed or deeds or other instruments of writing re-

corded again, and the clerk of Worcester county is

Clerk required to

hereby required, upon application of the party or par-

record

ties interested, to have the same deed or deeds or other

instrument of writing recorded, together with the

endorsement of the former instrument endorsed on

the said deed or deeds or other instrument of writing,

in a well bound book in folio for that purpose, and to

be regularly alphabeted in the name of alt 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 enrolled, and shall put his

name thereto, which enrollment shall he made at the

Cost

expense and cost of the person or persons requiring

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 pur-

poses as if the records aforesaid, in which the said deed

or deeds or other instruments of writing were hereto-

fore enrolled, had never been destroyed.