936 CHARLES COUNTY. [ART. 9.

sioners of the county wherein they are collected, for the use of
said county; and no part of any fine or penalty enforced or col-
lected under said section shall be paid to any informer.

LANDLORD AND TENANT.

1876, ch. 384. 1886, ch 182.

89. In all cases of renting land in Charles, Calvert, Prince
George's, St. Mary's and Worcester counties, wherein a share of
the growing crop shall be reserved as rent, or wherein advances
by the landlord have been made upon the faith of the crops to
be grown, said rent reserved and such advances made shall be a
lien on such crop, which shall not be diverted by any sale made
thereof by the tenant or by any administrator of a deceased
tenant, or by the assignment of the tenant in insolvency, or by
the process of law issued against the tenant; provided, that at
the time of said renting, the contract under and by which said
advances are to be made, shall be reduced to writing, duly exe-
cuted and attested by the said landlord and tenant.

LAND RECORDS.

1886. ch. 31.

90. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the circuit court for
the county to index in a well bound book suitable for the pur-
pose, after the method known as the Campbell system, all deeds
deposited in his office for record, for which service he shall be
allowed the same compensation as is now allowed by the code of
public 'general laws for making alphabets and lists of transfers of
property; said fee or compensation to be paid by the grantee in
the deed.

LA PLATA.

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1888, ch. 325.

91. The citizens of the town of La Plata, in Charles county,
are created a body corporate by the name of the " Commissioners
of La Plata," with all the powers and privileges of a body politic
and corporate, and by said corporate name may have perpetual
succession, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court
of law or equity in said county, and may have and use a common
seal.