A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

at the expense and costs of the party or parties re-
quiring the same.

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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 writing were heretofore enrolled, had
never been destroyed.

Made valid.

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
herefore 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
enrolled 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 expense
of the party or parties requiring the same ; and
the same, when so recorded, shall have the same
effect and operation in law, to all intents and pur-
poses, as if the records aforesaid, in which the said
papers were heretofore recorded, had never been
destroyed.

Empowered
to enroll bills
of sale &c.

Sec. 24. And be it enacted, that this act shall
take effect from and after the date of its passage.

In force.

CHAPTER 282.

AN ACT to amend the eighth-first Article of the
Code of Public General Laws, by adding thereto
the following sections, imposing a tax on the
Commissions of certain Officers.

Passed March
10, 1862.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That when their commissions are
delivered to them, the following officers shall re-

Tax on Com-
missions.