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validity as if recorded among the Land, Mortgage or Judicial Records of
said clerk's office.

1922, ch. 211, sec. 151E.

197. Certified copies of the plats recorded as hereinbefore provided
in this Act in said clerk's office, shall be receivable in evidence to the
same effect as the original and certified copies of other records in said
office.

1924, ch. 254, sec. 151F.

198. The Clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County ia
hereby authorized and directed to procure suitable books made of drawing
paper of good quality and substantially bound and the aaid clerk shall
employ a competent person who shall thereupon make true and accurate
copies of all plats contained in plat book G-. W. No. 1, Sections 1, 2, 3
and 4, and in tubes filed in said office in the books so procured and the said
clerk shall cause a full and complete index or indexes to be made thereof,
and shall file and preserve among the records of the office the original
plats contained in said plat books and tubes and. said plat record books.
The Clerk of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County shall pay the
expense incurred for the transcribing of said plats out of the surplus
revenue of his office.

1924, ch. 254, sec. 151G.

199. All plats recorded among the provisions of this Act and all plats
now in plat book G. W. No. 1, Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 and in tubes in said
clerk's office shall have the same effect 'and validity as if recorded among
the Land, Mortgage or Judicial Records of said clerk's office.

1924, ch. 254, sec. 151H.

200. Certified copies of the plats recorded as hereinbefore provided
in this Act in said clerk's office, shall be receivable in evidence to the same
effect as the original and certified copies of other records in said office.

RECORDING OF DEEDS.

1920, ch. 278.

201. Before any deed for the conveyance of real estate in Anne Arun-
del County shall be received for record by the Clerk of the Circuit Court
thereof, the person offering said deed for record shall submit the same to
the Clerk to the County Commissioners of said county, who shall there-
upon make transfer on the County Assessment Books of the said property
to the name of the new owner or owners thereof, and as evidence of said
transfer, shall stamp upon the said deed his certificate thereof, and no
deed shall be received for record without said certificate. At the time of
submitting the deed to the Clerk to the County Commissioners, the person
or persons offering the same shall furnish said clerk with a statement of