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154. The commissioner herein appointed shall
have access to all the books and papers which have
been deposited or filed in the office of the clerk of
the court of appeals of this state and which contain
extracts from any deed, mortgage or instrument of
writing which has been recorded in any of the land
or mortgage records of Baltimore county, and the
said commissioner shall copy or cause to be copied
such extracts as in his opinion will be required to
restore and re-establish such of the indexes, land and
mortgage records or papers or instruments of writ-
ing which may have been recorded in the office of
the clerk of the circuit court for said county as have
been either wholly or partially destroyed by fire,
and if it should be deemed advantageous and proper
by the said commissioner, he shall be permitted by
receipting for the same, to withdraw any book or
paper containing extracts as aforesaid from the office
of the said clerk of the court of appeals, and to re-
tain said book or paper for such reasonable length of
time as will enable the said commissioner to get
such copies as he may require, and it shall be the
duty of the said commissioner to certify under his
hand and seal each and every copy made of or taken
from the extract of any deed, mortgage or instru-
ment of writing as aforesaid, and when any record
or instrument of writing cannot, in the judgment of
the said commissioner be fully restored or re-estab-
lished without the aid of such extract or extracts,
then the filing of such certified extract or extracts as
the said commissioner may order and direct among
the land and mortgage records in the office of the
said clerk of the circuit court shall have the same
effect in law, and shall secure to the party or parties
interested, the same rights, title and interest which
was designed and intended to be vested by the orig-
inal instrument of writing and record thereof as fully
and effectually as if the record thereof had not been
destroyed or injured by fire.
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Ibid s 15
Commissioner
to have access
to records in
clerk's office of
court of ap-
peals, &c.
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