JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

1826,

sums over five dollars which shall be contributed from time to
time, shall be invested in ground rents, and constitute part of
said fund forever.

CHAP. 225

5. And be it enacted, That the said president and directors
may call a meeting of the contributors at any time when they
think the interest of the institution may require it, and any six
of the directors shall be a quorum to exercise the powers, and
execute the duties, granted and required by this supplement,
and may, during the absence of any officer, appoint an officer,
pro tempore, to supply his place.

Meeting

6. And be it enacted. That so much of the act, entitled, An
act incorporating the Baltimore Second Dispensary, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and seventeen, as is con-
trary to, and inconsistent with, the provisions of this supple-

Repeal,

ment, be and the same is hereby repealed; Provided, that this
act shall not take effect unless the directors of the Baltimore
Second Dispensary shall signify their assent to the same, in writ-
ing, under their corporate seal, to the governor and council of
the state, on or before the first day of January next

Proviso

CHAP. CCXXVI.
A Supplement to the act entitled, An act to aid conveyances of Land im-
properly enrolled, and for other purposes.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That so much of the seventh section of the act to which this is
a supplement, passed at November session, in the year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, chapter nine,
as requires the clerks of the several county courts to keep in
their respective offices the record book in which shall hereafter
be entered the substance of any deed for conveying of lands,
qr other real estate, and all and every part of the said section,
which is inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the
same are hereby repealed.

Passed Mar 12 1827

Part of an aet re-
pealed.

2. And be it enacted, That every record book, (which shall
be about eighteen inches and one quarter of an inch in length,
and eleven and an half inches in breadth, containing not more
than seven quires of paper, with the number marked on each
page,) in which the substance of any deed conveying lands, or
other real estate, shall hereafter be entered agreeably to the pro-
visions of the seventh section of the act to which this is a sup-
plement, and the seventh section of the act, entitled, An addi-
tional supplement to an act to provide for the organization and
regulation of the courts of common law hi this state, and for
the administration of justice therein, passed at November ses-
sion, in the year one thousand eight hundred and six, chapter
ninety, and not a copy of such record entry, shall, on or be-
fore the first day of June in each and every year, be transmitted
by the clerk of the county court to the clerk of the court of
appeals &f his shore, who shall receive such record book, and
place the same among the records of his office, without fee of
reward; and a copy taken from any such record book, properly
attested by the clerk of the court of appeals, shall be admitted
in evidence in the manner prescribed by the seventh section of
the act to which this is a supplement

Record books to
be yearly trans-
mitted to clerk of
court of appeals,