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shall be reserved as rent, or wherein advances by the landlord have been
made upon the faith of the crops to be grown, said rent reserved and such
advances made shall be a lien on such crop, which shall not be diverted
by any sale made thereof by the tenant or by any administrator of a de-
ceased tenant, or by the assignment of the tenant in insolvency, or by the
process of law issued against the tenant; provided, that at the time of
said renting, the contract under and by which said advances are to be
made, shall be reduced to writing, duly executed and attested by the said
landlord and tenant.

LAND RECORDS.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 9, sec. 90. 1886, ch. 31.

163. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the
county to index in a well bound book suitable for the purpose, after the
method known as the Campbell System, all deeds deposited in his office
for record, for which service he shall be allowed the same compensation
as is now allowed by the Code of Public General Laws for making alpha-
bets and lists of transfers of property; said fee or compensation to be
paid by the grantee in the deed.

LA PLATA.*

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 9, sec. 91. 1S88, ch. 325. 1900, ch. 518, sec. 91. 1910, ch. 720,
sec. 91 (p. 756). 1912, ch. 770, sec. 91.

164. The citizens of the town of La Plata, in Charles County, are
hereby created a body corporate by the name of Town Commissioners of
La Plata, with all the powers and privileges of a body politic and corpo-
rate, and by said corporate name may have perpetual succession, may
sue and be sued and may have and use a common seal.

1912, ch. 770, sec. 92.

165. The corporate limits of said town shall be as follows : Beginning
at a stone fixed in the earth on the south side of the main road leading
through said town of La Plata from Bryantown to Port Tobacco, which
point of beginning is south seventy-eight and one-half (78 1/2) degrees,
west eight hundred and ninety-eight (898) feet from the south meridian
stone in the Court House yard, and running thence south five and one-
half (5 1/2) degrees east, continuing and extending with the dividing
line between the lands of the late William F. Maurice, deceased, and L.
Allison Wilmer fifteen hundred and thirty-eight (1,538) feet to a set stone;
then south eighty-eight (88) degrees east twenty-five hundred and ninety-
five (2,595) feet to a set stone; then north twenty-nine and one-fourth
(29 1/4) degrees east twenty-five hundred and thirty (2,530) feet to a set
stone on the north side of the aforementioned main road; then north

*La Plata was made county seat in place of Port Tobacco by ch. 546, 1894, which
Act was held valid in Hamilton v. Carroll, 82 Md. 326.

Ch. 36, 1920, authorized La Plata to issue 54,800 of refunding bonds.