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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

dered to pay Edward Pennington, a Collector of
State taxes for the First District of Cecil county,
for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the
sum of ten dollars and forty-five cents, ($10.46,)
erroneously paid by him into the State Treasury,
said refunding being recommended by the officers
of the Treasury Department.

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
CHAPTER 27.

Passed Jan.
24, 1865.

AN ACT to provide for making new Indexes, for
copying General Indexes, and for binding and
covering books, containing Civil Equity and
Land Dockets, and also Mortgage and Chattel
Records of Baltimore county.

Clerks re-
quired to make
a new index.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the Clerk of the Circuit Court
of Baltimore county be and he ia hereby required
to make a new index for all deeds, mortgages and
chattel records, from the first day of December,
eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to the first day of
June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and also
to copy General Index of every kind of record,
from the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred
and fifty-three, to the first day of January, eigh-
teen hundred and fifty-eight, and for copying
General Index, from the year eighteen hundred
and fifty-eight to eighteen hundred and sixty-one.

Books to be
bound.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
Clerk. of the Circuit Court as aforesaid, shall pro-
cure the binding and covering of the books, con-
taining Civil and Equity Dockets, Land Mortgage
and Chattel Records, and to copy such of the same
as in his judgment may be necessary, and the
matter and contents thereof, shall be treated, con-
sidered and "held as valid and effectual, in all re-