196 ARTICLE 17.

ing to the requirements of this section but offered for recordation may be
three times the charge now allowed by law for the recording of the same.

60.

See notes to sec. 61.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 61. 1912, sec. 57. 1904. sec. 56. 1888. sec. 52. 1833. ch. 88. sec. 1.

1935.ch. 141, sec. 61.

61. They shall make a full and complete general alphabetical index
(unless the same shall have already been done) in a book or books, well
bound for that purpose, of all deeds, mortgages, bills of sale, short assign-
ments of mortgages, and other conveyances of record in their respective
offices, which index shall be both in the names of each and all the grantors,
bargainers, donors, mortgagors or assignors, and each and all the grantees,
bargainees, donees, mortgagees or assignees, and shall refer to the book
and page of the record of the several conveyances designating the same.

This section referred to in construing secs. 802 and 803 of Baltimore City
Charter (art. 4. P. L. L.). State v. Little, 157 Md. 457.

Indexing is not part of recording and consequently liability cannot he asserted
against clerk for failure to index. Standard Finance Co. v. Little. 159 Md. 621.

An. Code, sec. 62. 1912, sec. 58. 1904, sec. 57. 1888, sec. 53. 1833, ch. 88, sec. 3.
1933, ch. 346, sec. 62. 1935, ch. 141, sec. 62.

62. They shall continue and keep up the alphabetical indexes required
by the" preceding section, by noting at the time of recording any deed,
mortgage, bill of sale, short assignment of mortgages, or other conveyance,
the names of parties, and the character of the conveyance in such alpha-
betical index, in the manner prescribed in the preceding section.

This section referred to in construing secs. 802 and 803 of Baltimore City
Charter (art. 4. P. L. L.). State v. Little, 157 Md. 457.
See notes to sec. 61.

1933, ch. 458.

65A. Every Clerk shall receive, index and file in a substantial loose-
leaf book linen backed or other durable copies of plats showing property
or rights-of-way to be acquired or conveyed by the State Roads Commis-
sion, and when so filed and indexed the same shall be and constitute a
part of the Land Records of the county in which filed. Each Clerk shall be
entitled to receive a fee of one dollar for each plat so filed and indexed.
Said plats shall be of a size not greater than fifteen inches by thirty
inches.¹

Clerks and Registers Retirement Board.

1929, sec. 351, sec. 75.

75. A Board is hereby created and established, to be known as the
''Clerks and Registers Retirement Board" (hereinafter called the Retire-

¹ Sec. 2 of ch. 458 of acts of 1933 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith to the
extant of such inconsistency.