ART. 3.] BALTIMORE COUNTY.

credit -of the fund authorized and appropriated by
the provisions of this act.

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143. The said commissioner shall adopt such
measures as he may deem most expedient and
proper to fully inform the public of the fact and
object of his appointment, and as will notify and
request all persons who have been or are at present
interested in the title to any lands in Baltimore
county, to examine their title papers and ascertain
if they have any original deeds, mortgages, bills of
sale or other papers or instruments of writing which
have been recorded in the office of the clerk of the
circuit court for said county and the record of which
has either been wholly or partially destroyed by fire;
and the said commissioner may arrange for the time
and places of his sitting for the transaction of the
business of the commission as in his judgment he

Ibid. s. 4.
To notify pub-
lic to produce
deeds, Ac.

may deem best; provided, its shall be the duty of
the county commissioners of said county and they
are hereby required to provide the said commis-
sioner with a room in the court house in Towson-
town to facilitate him in the transaction of the
business of the commission.

Proviso.

144. In all cases where, in the judgment of the
commissioner appointed by this act, any record in
the office of the clerk of the circuit court for said
county shall have been so burnt or defaced as to be
wholly destroyed by fire, and the general index or
the index to such record, may supply the titling to
such record, he shall take and accept such index as
auxiliary evidence, and shall, if any original paper
or a certified copy thereof, properly evidenced as of
record be produced, order and direct such original
paper or copy, as the case may be, to be recorded
anew; and shall endorse such order on said paper,
which endorsement and new record of such paper
shall be prima fade evidence of the verity of the
record so made and available for all purposes for
which the original record if it had not been destroyed
by fire would have been available in evidence.

Ibid a 5.
Destroyed or
defaced re-
cords.