EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 575

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Worcester Coun-
ty is hereby authorized and directed to have made under the
supervision and control of the Judges of the First Judicial
Circuit of Maryland a new general index of the land records
of said Worcester County beginning with the year eighteen
hundred and seventy-six, and bringing it up to date, according
to the most approved modern system now in vogue, of which
the said Clerk, together with the said Judges, shall be the
judge.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted as aforesaid, That the
said Clerk is authorized to let the said work on contract as a
whole or to employ any competent person or persons to do said
work, subject to the approval of the said Judges; and the
County Commissioners of Worcester County are hereby author-
ized and required to levy a sufficient sum to pay therefor at
their next succeeding levy after the Clerk of the said Circuit
Court shall report the amount thereof to the said County Com-
missioners and the same shall be approved by the said Judges
of the said Circuit, or any one of them.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 214.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 219
and 220 of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Public Civil
Laws of Maryland, title "Revenue and Taxes", sub-title
"Distilled Spirits", (Section 219 as enacted by Chapter 631
of the Acts of 1916) by providing for the time for filing re-
ports to the State Tax Commission, and for payment of taxes
on distilled spirits directly to the State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 219 and 220 of Article 81 of the Annotated
Code of Public Civil Laws, title "Revenue and Taxes", sub-title
"Distilled Spirits" (Section 219 as enacted by Chapter 631 of
the Acts of 1916) be and the same are hereby repealed and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

219. For the purpose of such assessment and collection it ia
"hereby made the duty of each distiller, and of every owner or
proprietor of a bonded or other warehouse, in which distilled