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the credit of the levy of said county for the year eighteen hun-
dred and sixty-three; and if, to the contrary, said sum should be
insufficient to defray the expense of the commissioners, the
deficiency thereof shall be levied in the year eighteen hundred
and sixty-three, and paid as provided in this act.

25. The commission hereby created shall meet at such times
as they deem expedient, and may adjourn from day to day;
provided, however, that the whole time occupied by the said com-
mission in the discharge of the duties provided for by this act,
shall not exceed two hundred days.

26. Any person or persons having any original deed or deeds
for land lying and being in Baltimore county, or other instru-
ment of writing relating to lands in said county, which shall ap-
pear to have been recorded in said county, and the record thereof
has been destroyed, may be authorized to have the said deed or
deeds, or other instrument of writing, recorded again; and the
clerk of the Circuit Court for the said county is hereby required,
upon application of the party or parties interested, at any time
within twelve months from the passage of this act, to have the
same deed or deeds, or other instrument of writing, recorded,
together with the endorsement of the former enrollment endorsed
on said deed or deeds, or other instrument of writing, in a well-
bound book, in folio for that purpose, and to be regularly alpha-
beted in the name of all the parties, and in the name of the lands
and quantities of acres; and the said clerk shall, on the back of
the said deed or deeds, or instrument of writing, make an en-

dorsement of such second enrollment, and also the folio of the
book in which the same shall be enrolled, and shall put his name
thereto; which enrollment shall be made at the expense and cost
of the person or persons requiring the same.

27. Any person or persons interested in any lands in the county
aforesaid, and the original deed or deeds thereof and the record
thereof have both, been burnt or destroyed, upon application to
the clerk of the Court of Appeals for an extract or extracts of the
said deed or deeds, so as aforesaid destroyed, the clerk is hereby
requested to furnish to the party or parties so applying for such