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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 302.

AN ACT providing for the accurate indexing, by an im-
proved system, of certain Land Records of Somerset
County.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, The index to the Land Records of Somerset
county are inconvenient for reference and not in keeping with
modern and improved systems now in use in other counties in
the First Judicial Circuit, and in other counties, where titles
can readily be examined without professional assistance, there-
by entailing a great saving to the people at large.

To index land
records.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the -General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the clerk of the Circuit Court for Somerset county
be and he is hereby authorized to re-index the Land Records
of Somerset county, received from the first day of January,
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, to December
thirty-first, one thousand eight hundered and ninety-five,
inclusive; and that the County Commissioners of Somerset
county be and they are hereby required to appropriate for the
usse of said clerk for such indexing service, the gum of three
hundred dollars each year for the years eighteen hundred and
ninety-six, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-eight, and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine,
but no more than three hundred dollars is to be appropriated
out of the levy of any one year therefor.

Approved April 2d, 1896.

CHAPTER 303.

AN ACT to extend the privileges, enlarge the powers and
amend the charter of the Wicomico Building and Loan Asso-
ciation of Salisbury, Maryland, a corporation duly incorpo-
rated under the General Laws of this State.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, The Wicomico Building and Loan Association of
Salisbury, Maryland, was duly incorporated on the 27th day of
March, in the year 1894, under the provisions of the General
Laws of this State, relating to the creation and regulation of
incorporated companies in the State of Maryland, with a capital
stock of $200,000, divided into two thousand shares of the par
value of $100 each, and is desirous of extending the privileges
and enlarging the powers of said corporation; therefore,