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36. 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 re-
quired to record the same, together with the endorsement there-
on, 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 opera-
tion in law, to all intents and purposes, as if the records afore-
said, in which the said papers were heretofore recorded, had
never been destroyed.

37. The funds unappropriated in the hands of the County
Commissioners for Baltimore county, levied upon the county by
the act passed March, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to pro-
vide for the restoration of burnt records, shall be applied to
carry out the provisions of this act.

38. It shall be the duty of the commissioner, after proper
notice having been given, to travel, if necessary, over the county
or State, at his own expense, to collect papers to complete the
said record.

Passed February 3, 1364, and takes effect from March 1, 1364.

ROADS.
Chapter 97 repeals Section 151, and substitutes the following.

39. The County Commissioners are required to levy such
sum of money as may be necessary to pay laborers on the public
roads in said county, such rate of wages as they may deem
proper, and shall take a sufficient bond from each district road
supervisor, conditionally, for the payment of laborers who may
work upon said roads.

In force from February 11, 1864.