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LAWS OP MARYLAND.

Chapter 153.

AN ACT to authorize the clerk of the Circuit

Court of St. Mary's county to make out general

indices to the Land and Chattel Records in his

office, and providing for paying for same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the clerk of the Circuit

Court for St. Mary's county be and he is hereby au-

thorized and required to make out in a full and

Make general

legible handwriting general indices to the Land and

indices.

Chattel Records in his office, commencing with the

year eighteen hundred and twenty-seven to the pas-

sage of this act, and he shall be allowed therefor

the same compensation as is now allowed for mak-

ing alphabetical lists of transfers of property, to be

paid for by the County Commissioners for St. Mary's

county on the certificate of the chief justice or one

of the associate justices of the seventh judicial cir-

cuit that said work and labor has been properly per-

formed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the County

Commissioners of St. Mary's county are and they

are hereby directed to pay the clerk of the Circuit

who are au-

Court for St. Mary's county whatever sum or sums

thorized to pay

of money may be found to be due him under the

preceding section, upon the receipt of the certificate

therein required.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That from and after

the passage of this act it shall be the duty of said

clerk to enter in said general indices all conveyances

Enter convey-

thereafter recorded, for which service he shall be

ances.

allowed the same compensation as is allowed for

similar services, to be paid for by the grantee to the

conveyance as other costs are now paid.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall

Effective.

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 30, 1882.