32 BALTIMORE COUNTY. [ART. 3.

33. 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 appli-
cation 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 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 persons 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 tbat the same be
alphabeted in the same manner that the deeds and other instru-
ments of writing are alphabeted, which said enrollment shall be
made at the expense and costs of the party or parties requiring
the same.

34. Whenever any record cannot be made up, when the party
or parties fail to make application to the Court of Appeals, (as
per section 20,) [sec. 33,] for an extract or extracts, the com-
missioner is directed to obtain the necessary extract or extracts
to complete the records, and the clerk of the Court of Appeals,
or the clerk of any other court, is hereby directed to furnish to
the commissioner so much of the extract or extracts as the said
commissioner may require, under the seal of his office, in a book
provided for the purpose, which seal shall cover and be valid
for all the extracts up to the date of the seal, and the clerk of
the Circuit Court for Baltimore county shall have the same
extract or extracts recorded amongst the land records of said
county, at the expense and cost of the county.

35. 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
or other instruments of writing, were heretofore enrolled, had
never been destroyed.