A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

extracts recorded amongst the land records of the
said county, and the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
the said county, upon application, is hereby re-
quired to have the extract or extracts, aforesaid,
recorded in the record books aforesaid, and that
the same be alphabeted in the same manner that
the deeds and other instruments of writing are
alphabeted, which said enrollment shall be made
at the expense and costs of the party or parties re-
quiring the same.

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Sec. 21. And be it enacted, That whenever any
record cannot be made up, when the party or par-
ties fail to make application to the Court of Ap-
peals, (as per section 20,) for an extract or extracts,
the Commissioner is directed to obtain the neces-
sary extract or extracts, to complete the records,
and the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, or the
Clerk of any other Court, is hereby directed to fur-
nish to the Commissioner so much of the extract
or extracts as the said Commissioner may require,
under the seal of his office, in a book provided for
the purpose, which seal shall cover and be valid
for all the extracts up to the date of the seal, and
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore coun-
ty shall have the same extract or extracts recorded
amongst the land records of said county, at the
expense and cost of the county.

Commissioner
to obtain ex-
tracts.

Sec. 22. And be it enacted, That the deed or
deeds, or other instruments of writing, and the
extracts aforesaid, when so as aforesaid enrolled,
shall have the same effect and operation in law, to
all intents and purposes, as if the records aforesaid,
in which the said deed or deeds, or other instru-
ments of writin were heretofore enrolled, had
never been destroyed.

To have ef-
fect.

Sec. 23. And be it enacted, That any person or
persons having possession of any bill of sale, mort-
gage, or other instrument of writing, relating to
personal property, that appears to have been here-
tofore recorded in the office of the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for the said county, and the record
thereof has been destroyed, may have the same en-
rolled again, and the Clerk of the said Court is
hereby required to record the same, together with
the endorsement thereon, of the former enrollment,
in the record book aforesaid, at the cost and ex-

Instruments
of writing to
be enrolled.