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able instrument 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 suf-
ficient weight or thickness as to be clearly readable. PROVID-
ED, HOWEVER, THAT THE PROVISIONS RELATING TO
THE SIZE TYPE AND COLOR SHALL NOT APPLY TO
MANUSCRIPT COVERS OR BACKS CUSTOMARILY USED
ON DOCUMENTS OFFERED FOR RECORDING. The record-
ing charges for any such instrument not conforming to the require-
ments of this section but offered for recordation 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 micro-
filmed 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 mic-
rofilming shall be offered or received for record until a charge equal
to three times the fee now allowed by law for the recording of the
same shall have have paid to such clerk.

SEC. 2. And be it futher enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957 JANUARY 1, 1959.

Approved March 1, 1957.

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law

CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.

Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.

Three other bills introduced at this session of the General Assembly were
supported by us because they either lowered an unnecessarily long period of
retention for records or they freed other record series from anachronistic or
obsolete requirements. These bills all passed: they pertained to records of the
Fiscal Research Bureau (Chapter 1), the Public Service Commissioner (Chap-
ter 501), and the Department of Motor Vehicles (Chapter 605).