WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 641

123C. For the purposes of this section, the term "record-
ing" shall be construed to include the reproduction of instru-
ments by microphotography or other photographic process on
film which is kept in appropriate files. In addition to the
conventional recording processes now authorized and directed
by law, the Clerk of the Court is hereby authorized to preserve
and keep such records, including those recorded prior or subse-
quent hereto, as the Court may direct, by an approved micro-
photography process. If the recording is by microphotog-
raphy, the recording clerk must endorse on the instrument to
be recorded a certificate stating the hour, day, month and year
when it was recorded, and the serial number or such other
designation as will permit easy reference to the record of such
instrument. He shall also make an appropriate entry in the
general alphabetical index for reference to such record. The
clerk shall provide such filing equipment for the preservation
of the film as he deems appropriate. He may, in his discre-
tion, record in consecutive order the instruments received by
him, and shall not be required to segregate mortgages from
deeds or other classes of instruments.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1947.

Approved April 16, 1947.

CHAPTER 370.
(House Bill 406)

AN ACT to add five new sections to Article 21 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title
"Talbot County", sub-title "Trappe", to be under the sub-
heading "Sewers", said new sections to be known as Sections
549A, 549B, 549C, 549D and 549E, and to follow immediately
after Section 549 of said Article, authorizing and empower-
ing The Commissioners of Trappe, Talbot County, Mary-
land, to construct, install, maintain in working order and
operate a sewerage system and sewage disposal plant in
said Town, with full powers to fix schedules of rates there-
for, and authorizing and empowering said Commissioners
to borrow upon the faith and credit of said Town a sum not
to exceed Eighty Thousand Dollars ($80,000) and to issue
its bonds therefor, and to levy municipal taxes to pay the
principal and interest of such indebtedness, and providing
for a referendum on such bond issue.
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