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ticular because provision is contained therein, or the mortgagee consents,
that the mortgagor may use and consume food, forage and/or fodder crops
in preserving and preparing for market the livestock covered thereby.

1035, ch. 2S1. sec. 54E.

54E. Execution. Any chattel mortgage given under and pursuant to
this sub-title shall be executed by the mortgagor and need not be sealed
or witnessed, but shall be acknowledged.

1935, ch. 281, sec. 54F.

54F. Affidavit of Consideration. It shall not be necessary to the valid-
ity of any chattel mortgage given under and pursuant to this sub-title
for any party thereto to make or record any affidavit, affirmation or oath
as to the consideration of such chattel mortgage, the debt secured or any
other matter in connection therewith.

1035, ch. 2S1, sec. 54G.

54G. Docketing. (1) Any chattel mortgage given under and pursuant
to this sub-title, or instrument intended to operate as such, shall be filed
in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the county in which the
chattels or crops are located; and if in Baltimore City, in the office of the
Clerk of the Superior Court. The Clerk shall docket such instrument
when presented to him for that purpose, in a well bound book to be known
as "Federal Farm Credit Lien Book"; and shall alphabetically index
same therein, setting forth the date of the lien, the name of the mort-
gagor and mortgagee, the amount advanced and the limit thereof, and a
brief description of the chattels described therein and/or the crops affected,
and the property on which said chattels and/or crops are located.

(2) Every assignment made of any instrument executed under and
pursuant to this sub-title may be filed in the office of the Clerk where the
original instrument is docketed; and when any such assignment is pre-
sented for filing the said Clerk shall enter upon the margin of the page on
which is docket¹ the original instrument, the name of the assignor and
assignee and the addresses of each, the date of the execution of the assign-
ment and the amount of the debt as of the date of the assignment and the
date of filing thereof.

1035, ch. 281, sec. 54H.

54H. Fees. The clerks of the courts are entitled to receive for services
hereunder, the following fees: For docketing and indexing each mortgage,
fifty cents; for certified copies of each instrument where the copy to be
certified is prepared by the person requesting certification, twenty-five
cents; for certified copies of each instrument where the copy to be certified
is not so furnished, twenty-five cents, and in addition ten cents for each
one hundred words copied; for marginal releases, twenty-five cents, and
for marginal assignments, twenty-five cents.

¹ Evidently a typographical error.