JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 37

	CHAPTER 36.
	AN ACT to require and direct the Clerk of the
	Circuit Court of Baltimore county to make and
	transmit to the Treasurer of said county, records
	of abstracts from all conveyances and assignments
	of real estate left in the Clerk's Office of Balti-
	more county for record, and to authorize him to
	charge proper fees therefor.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
	of Maryland, That the Clerk of the Circuit Court
	for Baltimore county shall, immediately upon the
	receipt of any deed in his office for record, convey-
	ing or assigning any real or leasehold estate in said
	county, make an abstract of the same, containing	Make ab-
	the names of the grantor or grantors and grantee or	stract.
	grantees, the date of the deed, the quantity of land
	conveyed or assigned, if stated in the deed, the loca-
	tion thereof, so far as practicable, or if the location
	cannot be given from the deed, such other descrip-
	tion of the same as may be necessary for its identifi-
	cation without a description by metes and bounds,
	and a record of the abstracts so made shall be trans-	Transmit to
	mitted by the Clerk of said Court to the Treasurer	Treasurer
	of said county on Monday of each week at his office
	in Towsontown, and as compensation the said Clerk
	shall charge and receive from the person who pays
	for the recording of the deed a fee of twenty-five
	cents for each deed left in the said Clerk's Office for
	record.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this act shall take	In force.
	effect from the date of its passage.
	Approved February 14, 1878.