HARFORD COUNTY. 2945

1916, ch. 680, sec. 223.

240. In case of a sale under the provisions of the preceding section, the
money arising from said sale shall be applied first to the payment to the
constable making such seizure and sale, one dollar for taking and impound-
ing each of the animals seized by him, and fifty cents for giving and set-
ting up each of the notices of sale and the expenses incurred by him in
keeping and feeding the animals sold, and the poundage fees allowed by
law to constables making sale of property under writs of fieri facias, and
the balance, if any, to the owner of the animals sold.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 224.

241. In case any constable in Harford County shall fail to perform
the duty imposed on him by Section 239, he shall be fined two dollars,
for each offense, to be recovered by indictment in the Circuit Court for
Harford County, and to be payable to the County Commissioners of said
County, and applied by them towards repairing the public roads in the
said village of Darlington, or the roads within one mile of the town hall,
in said village.

DEEDS.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 225.

242. No deeds conveying real estate or chattels real, located in Harford
County, shall be admitted to record among the Land Records of the Cir-
cuit Court for said county until the property thereby conveyed or as-
signed has been duly transferred upon the property books in the County
Commissioners' office of said county to the grantee or assignee unless such
a description thereof be furnished, under oath, to the Clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court as will enable the Clerk of the County Commissioners to trans-
fer the same intelligently upon said property books.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 226.

243. If the transfer be made upon said property books before said
deed is offered for record, the Clerk of the County Commissioners shall
endorse the fact of said transfer on the deed, and if said deed be offered
for record without such endorsement, the Clerk of the Circuit Court
before receiving the same for record shall require one of the parties thereto,
or some other person having personal knowledge of the facts, to state,
under oath, in whose name the property transferred stands on the prop-
erty books of said county, the number of acres therein (or if a town lot,
the number or other intelligible description thereof), the improvements
thereon, the number of acres, arable or woodland, and such other facts
as will with certainty enable the Clerk of the County Commissioners to
locate the same on said property books, and intelligently make the trans-
fer, and all such sworn statements shall be on each Monday morning
returned by said Clerk of the Circuit Court to the County Commissioners
and the transfers shall be forthwith made by the Clerk of the County
Commissioners upon said property books.