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the Land Records of the Circuit Court for said county until the property
thereby conveyed or assigned has been duly transferred upon the county
assessment books in the office of the County Commissioners of said county
to the grantee or assignee named in such deed, unless such a description
thereof be furnished, under oath, to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said
county as will enable the Clerk of the County Commissioners to transfer
the same properly and intelligently upon said assessment books.

1920, ch. 338, sec. 2.

31. If the transfer be made upon said assessment books before such
deed is offered for record, the Clerk of the County Commissioners shall
certify the fact of said transfer upon the deed; and if said deed be offered
for record without such endorsement, the Clerk of the Circuit Court before
accepting 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 upon the county as-
sesssment books, the number of acres conveyed by said, deed (or, if a town
lot, a description thereof sufficient to identify and locate the same on said
assessment books), the improvements thereon, the number of arable acres
and number of acres set in woodland or swamp, and such other informa-
tion as will with certainty enable the Clerk of the County Commissioners
to identify and locate the same on the assessment books and to intelligently
make the transfer thereof; and all such aworn statements shall be, on each
Monday morning of every week, returned by the Clerk of the Circuit
Court to the Clerk of the County Commissioners, and said Clerk of the
County Commissioners shall forthwith properly record such transfers
upon said assessment books.

1920, ch. 338, sec. 3.

32. The County Commissioners of said county shall, immediately upon
the passage of this Act, have printed and furnished to the Clerk of the
Circuit Court, blank forms so printed as to indicate in detail the infor-
mation to be obtained by said Clerk from persons offering deed for record.

DELMAR.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 23, sec. 21. 1888, ch. 167. 1900, ch. 192, sec. 21.

33. The inhabitants of Delmar, in Wicomico County, are hereby made
and declared a body corporate by the name of "The Commissioner of
Delmar," and by that name shall have perpetual succession, may sue and
be sued, use a common seal, and possess such powers, privileges and inci-
dents as may attend by law to a municipal corporation; may purchase and
hold real, personal and mixed property, and dispose of the same for the
benefit of the town.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 23, sec. 22. 1888, ch. 167. 1900, ch. 192, sec. 22. 1904, ch. 578.
1912, ch. 400. 1914, ch. 302, sec. 22.

34. The taxable and corporate bounds and limits of the said Town of