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223. In case of a sale under the provisions of the preced-
ing section, the money arising from said sale shall be applied
first to the payment to the constable making such seizure and
sale, one dollar for taking and impounding each of the animals
seized by him, and fifty cents for giving and setting up each,
of the notices of sale and the expenses incurred by him in
keeping and feeding the animals sold, and the poundage fees
allowed by law to constables making sale of property under
writs of fieri facias, and the balance, if any, to the owner of the
animals sold.

224. In case any constable in Harford County shall fail
to perform the duty imposed on him by section 222, he shall
be fined two dollars for each offense, to be recovered by indict-
ment in the Circuit Court for Harford County, and to be pay-
able to the County Commissioners of said County, and applied
by them towards repairing the public roads in the said village
of Darlington, or the roads within one mile of the town hall,
in said village.

DEEDS.

226. No deeds conveying real estate or chattels real, lo-
cated in Harford County, shall be admitted to record among
the Land Records of the Circuit Court for said county until
the property thereby conveyed or assigned has been duly trans-
ferred upon the property books in the County Commissioners'
office of said county to the grantee or assignee unless such a
description thereof be furnished, under oath, to the Clerk of
the Circuit Court as will enable the Clerk of the County Com-
missioners to transfer the same intelligently upon said property
books,

226. If the transfer be made upon said property books
before said deed is offered for record, the Clerk of the County
Commissioners shall endorse the fact of said transfer on the
deed, and if said deed be offered for record without such en-
dorsement, the Clerk of the Circuit, Court before receiving
the same for record shall require one of the parties thereto,
or some other person having personal knowledge of the facts,
to state, under oath, in whose name the property transferred
stands on the property books of said. county, the number of
acres therein (or if a town lot, the number or other intelligible
description thereof), the improvements thereon, the number
of acres, arable or woodland, and such other facts as will with
certainty enable the Clerk of the County Commissioners to
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