WORCESTER COUNTY. 5201
CEIEE AND BAILIFFS.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 24, sec. 90. 1872, ch. 427. 1920 Code, sec. 87. 1929, ch. 537.

52. The pay of the Crier and Bailiffs of the Circuit Court for Wor-
cester County shall be three dollars a day payable by the County Com-
missioners of Worcester County upon presentation of the certificate of the
Clerk of said Court setting out the respective attendance and service of
the said Crier and Bailiffs, and the County Commissioners of Worcester
County are required to levy in advance each year a sum of money suffi-
cient to pay said Crier and Bailiffs for such attendance and service.*

DEEDS.

1924, ch. 328, sec. 1.

53. No deed or deeds conveying real estate or chattels real, situated
or located in Worcester County, Maryland, shall be admitted to record
among the land records of the Circuit Court for said County unless such
deed is first presented to the Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners
of said County for the purpose of making the proper transfer of such
property upon the assessment books of said county, or unless, upon such
deed being first presented to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said
County for record, such a description thereof be furnished to the Clerk
of the Circuit Court as will enable the Clerk of the County Commis-
sioners to transfer the property properly and intelligently upon said
assessment books.

See sec. 70.

1924, ch. 328, sec. 2.

54. If the transfer be made upon said assessment books before said
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 persou having personal knowledge of the facts, to
state in whose name the property transferred stands upon the County
Assessment Books, the number of acres conveyed by said deed (or if
a town lot, a description thereof sufficient to identify and locate same
on said Assessment Books), the improvements thereon, the number or
approximate number of arable acres and the number or the approxi-
mate number of acres set in woodland or swamp and such other infor-
mation as will enable the Clerk of the County Commissioners to identify
and locate the same on the Assessment Books and intelligently to make
the transfer thereof; and all such sworn 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
said County Commissioners shall forthwith properlv record such trans-

*Sec. 2, ch. 537, 1929, repealed all laws in conflict therewith.