ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That in all cases where

the comptroller shall require the services of an attor-

ney or attorneys to assist him in executing this act, he

may allow such attorney or attorneys, as compensation,

a commission of ten per cent, on any state claim such

attorney or attorneys may collect, or assist him, the

Compensation
allowable.

comptroller, in collecting, where the amount of such

claim does not exceed the sum of five hundred dol-

lars, and a commission of five per cent, on all sums

which such attorney or attorneys may collect or assist

in collecting as aforesaid, where the claim exceeds the

sum of five hundred dollars.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That whenever any

claim of the state shall be compromised or settled by

the comptroller, without payment in full, he shall

Keep records
of statement.

make and keep among the records of his office a state-

ment of the evidence or facts upon which such settle-

ment was made.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 31, 1884.

Chapter 117.

AN ACT to make valid deeds, mortgages and other

instruments of writing recorded anew in the office

of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Calvert county

since the third day of March, eighteen hundred

and eighty-two, the original record of which was

destroyed by fire.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That all deeds, mortgages and other

instruments of writing which had been recorded in

the office of the clerk of the circuit court for Calvert

Deeds, mort-

county, Maryland, prior to the third day of March, in

gages, etc., de-
stroyed by fire.

the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the origi-

made valid.

nal records of which was destroyed by fire, and all of

which deeds, mortgages and other instruments of

writing that have since been recorded anew from the