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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

fied by such evidence, it shall be their duty, if the
party or parties grantor shall supply a new in-
strument correspondent to the one destroyed by
fire, and confirmatory of the same, to accept such
instrument, and to order and direct the same to be
recorded, with an endorsement thereon of said or-
der, which record and endorsement shall secure to
the party or parties concerned, all the rights, title
and interest, which was designed and intended to
be vested by the original paper or instrument of
writing, as fully as if the record thereof had not
been destroyed by fire ; but if for any reason, the
grantor or grantors should not supply a new or
confirmatory deed or other instrument. of writing,
as, the case may be, correspondent to the one de-
stroyed by fife, then the said Commissioners shall
execute and deliver in their capacity of Commis-
sioners, a new and confirmatory deed or instru-
ment of writing, under their hands and seals, to
take the place of the record destroyed by fire, and
shall order and direct the same to be so endorsed
and recorded, and such endorsement and record
shall secure to the party or parties interested, the
same rights, title and interest, which was designed
and intended to be vested by the original paper or
instrument of writing, and record thereof, as
fully and effectually as if the record had not been
destroyed by fire.

Duty of Com-
missioners re-
specting the
records par-
tially destroy-
ed.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That in all cases
where the records have been only partially destroy-
ed or injured by fire so that they may be restored
by their own intrinsic evidence, or by the aid of
other evidence accessible to the said Commis-
sioners, it shall be the duty of the said Commis-
sioners to cause the said records to be restored to
their original condition, and to be recorded anew
by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said county,
accompanied by a certificate to that effect, and for
the purpose of preserving the said records as con-
tinuously together as they were before burnt, the
said Commissioners are hereby authorized, if they
see fit, to cause the binding of any of the record
books to be renewed so that the folios may be separa-
ted, the burnt portions detached, and the new record
thereof and correspondent thereto, be substituted
in the place of said burnt part, and to have the
said record book, thus restored to its original con-