676 ARTICLE 17

lease of real estate, and the estate conveyed by such deed, mortgage, release
of mortgage, or lease of real estate, in the very expressions thereof; and
also state and certify, immediately after and following such entry, the
day such deed, mortgage, release of mortgage, or lease of real estate was
recorded, and shall sign his name thereto.

This Section does not change the requirements necessary to entitle a deed to be re-
corded, or authorize a clerk to refuse to record a mortgage taken by a firm in the firm
name instead of the individual names. Bernstein v. Hobelman, 70 Md. 41.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 64. 1912, sec. 60. 1904, sec. 59. 1888, sec. 55. 1826, ch. 226, sec. 3.

1874, ch. 66. 1900, ch. 427.

72. They shall make the entry, aforesaid, on good royal writing paper,
such as is commonly used in record books, each sheet measuring in length
nineteen inches, and in breadth twelve inches, with a margin in blank of
about half an inch at the sides, top and bottom of each page, and shall
transmit the same, on or before the first day in June in each year, to the
commissioner of the land office; and it shall be the duty of the judges of
the circuit court for the counties and the judge of the superior court of
Baltimore City to enforce this section by such fines and penalties as they
may provide, and any failure to comply with the requirements of sections 71
and 72 by any of said clerks shall be a contempt of court.
See note to sec. 71.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 65. 1912, sec. 61. 1904, sec. 60. 1888, sec. 56. 1766, ch. 14, sec. 2.

73. Every clerk who receives a deed or instrument of writing which
is required to be recorded within a specific time shall endorse thereon the
time when he receives the same.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 65A. 1933, ch. 458.

74. 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

An. Code, 1924, sec. 66. 1912, sec. 62. 1904, sec. 61. 1888, sec. 57. 1853, ch. 86, sec. 2.

75. Before the first of May in each year, they shall apply to the com-
troller for such number of blank licenses of every sort as may probably be
required for the use of their respective counties for one year, or the frac-
tional part of the year, terminating on the 30th day of April then next
ensuing.

Cited but not construed in Weber v. State, 116 Md. 409.

See art. 19, sec. 25, et seq.

An, Code, 1924, sec. 67. 1912, sec. 64. 1904, sec. 63. 1888, sec. 59. 1853, ch. 86, sec. 3.

76. On or before the first Monday of June and December in each year,
they shall return to the comptroller, under oath, a list and account of the
licenses issued by them, respectively, which shall contain the number of
licenses issued, of each grade and kind, when issued, what amount of

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