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1888, art. 54, sec. 12. 1860, art 54, sec. 9. 1853, ch 415, sec. 7.

14. He shall record all certificates that may be returned to
the land office and issue patents thereon so soon as they are
ready for patents.

Ibid. sec. 13. 1874, ch. 66.

15. He shall have custody of all books containing deeds and
transfers of soldiers' lots and all other land record books and
papers, including extracts of deeds transferred to him by the
clerk of the court of appeals under the act of 1874, chapter 66,
and of all the other extracts of deeds which shall be hereafter
received by him, and shall give certified copies of such deeds
and extracts and make searches for the same when so required,
and shall receive and retain therefor fees at the same rate now
charged for copies of and searches for other papers in his
office.

Scharf v. Tasker, 71 Md. 64.

Ibid. sec. 14. 1874, ch. 66. 1894, ch. 191.

16. He shall receive and carefully file among the records of
his office all extracts of deeds transferred to him by the clerk
of the court of appeals under said act of 1874, chapter 66, and
all such as shall be transmitted to him by the clerks of the
circuit courts for the counties and the clerk of the superior
court of Baltimore city, and when he shall receive a sufficient
number of such extracts from the same county to form a
record book of the proper size, he shall cause the same to be
well and substantially bound in leather and placed among the
records of his office; and the comptroller of the treasury is
hereby directed to issue his warrant for such sum or sums of
money as from time to time may be necessary for the cost of
such binding and for the purchase of index books and for the
repair and rebinding of other record books in the land
office, upon a certificate of the correctness of the same given
by the commissioner of the land office, and the sum of one
thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary is
hereby appropriated annually for said purposes.

Ibid. sec. 15. 1874. ch. 66. 1876, ch. 257. 1894, ch. 191. 1900, ch. 318.

1902, ch. 261.

17. He is authorized and empowered to continue the index-
ing of certain land records and extracts of deeds which were
transferred to the land office from the court of appeals under
the said act of 1874, chapter 66, and such extracts of deeds and