26 BALTIMORE COUNTY. [ART. 3.

extract or extracts, a copy or copies of the same, under the seal
of his office, at the cost and expense of the person or persons so
applying for the same as aforesaid, and the said person or per-
sons may have the same, extract or extracts recorded amongst
the land records of the said county, and the clerk of the Circuit
Court for the said county, upon application, is hereby required
to have the extract or extracts, aforesaid, recorded in the record
books aforesaid, and that the same be alphabeted in the same
manner that the deeds, and other instruments of writing, are
alphabeted; which said enrollment shall be made at the expense
and costs of the party or parties requiring the same.

28. The deed or deeds, or other instruments of writing, and
the extracts aforesaid, when so as aforesaid enrolled, shall have
the same effect and operation in law, to all intents and purposes,
as if the records, aforesaid, in which the said deed or deeds, or
other instruments of writing were heretofore enrolled, had never
been destroyed.

29. Any person or persons having possession of any bill of
sale, mortgage, or other instrument of writing, relating to per-
sonal property, that appears to have been heretofore recorded in
the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for the said county,
and the record thereof has been destroyed, may have the same
enrolled again, and the clerk of the said court is hereby required
to record the same, together with the endorsement thereon of the
former enrollment in the record book aforesaid, at the cost and
expense of the party or parties requiring the same; and the
same, when so recorded, shall have the same effect and operation
in law, to all intents and purposes, as if the records aforesaid, in
which the said papers were heretofore recorded, had never been
destroyed.