60 TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT

eight-point type, in black letters and upon white paper of sufficient
weight and thickness as to be clearly readable. If such recordable in-
strument shall be wholly typewritten or typewritten on a printed
form, the typewriting shall be in black letters, in not less than elite
type and upon white paper of sufficient weight or thickness as to be
clearly readable. The recording charges for any such instrument not
conforming to the requirements of this section but offered for re-
cordation shall be three times the charge now allowed by law for the
recording of the same. In those clerks' offices where such instruments
are photostated or -microfilmed no instrument upon which a rider or
riders have been placed or attached in such a manner as to obscure,
hide or cover any other part of the instrument shall be offered or
received for record and no instrument not otherwise readily subject
to photostating or microfilming shall be offered or received for re-
cord until a charge equal to three times the fee now allowed by law
for the recording of the same shall have been paid to such clerk.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1955.

Explanation:

Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.

In another effort to reduce the burden of recordkeeping in the offices of
the clerks of court, we again had introduced a bill which would have permitted
the destruction of certain types of original instruments which had been re-
corded and which were more than twenty years old. This bill also failed, but
since it will be reintroduced it is printed here for ready reference.

A BILL

ENTITLED

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 17 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Clerks of Courts", sub-title
"Clerks of Circuit Courts", said new section to be known as Sec-
tion 63A and to follow immediately after Section 63 of said Arti-
cle, providing that the Clerks of the Circuit Court of the counties
and the Superior Court of Baltimore City may destroy any instru-
ment which remains in their possession twenty years after it is re-
corded.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and it is hereby added to Article 17 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Clerks of
Courts", sub-title "Clerks of Circuit Courts", said new section to be