46 TENTH ANNUAL REPORT

made and certified under the seal of the Commission upon appli-
cation of any person, which certification shall have the same
force and effect as if made by the officer originally in charge of
same, and the Commission shall charge for such copies the
same fees as such officer is allowed by law to charge, which fees
shall be accounted for and paid into the State Treasury. When-
ever any land records of any court have been turned over
to the Commission and deposited with it for preservation and
so accepted by it, the Commission is hereby authorized and
directed upon the written application of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for any county or the Clerk of the Superior Court of Bal-
timore City and with the written approval of a Judge of said
Court, to make photostatic or photographic reproductions of such
land records, the expense thereof to be borne by the Commis-
sion; and such photostatic or photographic reproductions, when
so made and certified under the seal of the Commission, shall be
deposited by the Commission in the office of the clerk of the
court making said application and said reproduced land records
when so deposited shall be entitled to the same legal force and
effect as the original land records from which such reproductions
were made.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1945.

Approved April 27, 1945.