20 BALTIMORE COUNTY. [ART. 3.

directed to apply to any court where he may believe he can pro-
cure an extract or extracts for the purpose of completing and
restoring said records, for such extract or extracts as the neces-
sity of the case,, may require, and the clerk of any court is
hereby required to furnish the said commissioner such extract
or extracts in a book provided by the said commissioner for that
purpose, under the seal of the office of the court of which he
may be clerk, which seal shall cover and be valid for all the
extracts up to the date of the seal, and said commissioner shall
record the same extract or extracts amongst the law records of
said county.

25. The deed or deeds, or other instruments of writing, and
the extracts 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 instrument
of writing, were heretofore enrolled had never been destroyed.

26. 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 at the cost and expense of the party or
parties requiring the same, and the same when recorded shall
have the same effect and operation in law, to all intents and pur-
poses, as if the records aforesaid, in which the said papers were
heretofore recorded had never been destroyed.

27. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.

In force from March 20, 1865.