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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the subscription authorized under the said act of

eighteen hundred and seventy-eight.

Effective.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 16, 1880.

CHAPTER 50.

AN ACT to require the clerk of the Circuit Court

for "Washington county to prepare and make a

general index to the land records of Washington

county prior to the year 1836, and to prepare and

keep a general index of all judgments recovered

in said court.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the clerk of the Circuit Court

for Washington county be and he is hereby required

to make a full and general alphabetical index, in a

book or books well bound for the purpose, of all

General in-

deeds, mortgages, bills of sale and other conveyances
of record in his office which were recorded prior to

dex of deeds,
&c.

the first day of January, in the year eighteen hun-

dred and thirty-six, which index shall set forth the

name of each grantor, bargainer, donor or mortgagor,
and of each grantee, bargainee, donee or mortgagee,

and shall refer to the book and page of the record

of the several conveyances aforesaid after the method

known as the " Campbell system."

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said clerk be

and he is hereby required to make a full and general

alphabetical index, in a book or books well bound

General in-

for the purpose, of all judgments recovered in said

dex of judg-

court for twelve years next prior to the first day of

ments.

January, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty,
which index shall be indexed in the name of each

defendant in said judgments, but shall also show the