ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 569

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 2 of Chapter 246 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland, passed at its January Session, in
the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, be and the.same
is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Judges of the Circuit Court for Carroll County
be arfd they are hereby authorized and directed to appoint a
Court Stenographer, who shall be a sworn officer of said Court,
and said stenographer so appointed shall be paid a salary of
not less than five hundred dollars per annum, the amount to
be fixed from time to time by the County Commissioners of
Carroll County, who shall pay said Court Stenographer the
sum so fixed by them for his services, in monthly installments,
immediately upon the presentation of the certificate of the
Clerk and of any of said Judges of said Court, showing the
attendance and services of said Court Stenographer.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 16, 1920.

CHAPTER 338.

AN ACT to require transfers of real estate on the County
assessment books of Wicomico County before deeds con-
veying real estate or chattels real are recorded among the
' Land Records of said county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That no deed or deeds conveying real estate or chattels
real, situate or located in Wicomico County, Maryland, 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 transferred upon the county assess-
ment books in the office of the County Commissioners of said
county to the grantee or assignee named in such deed, unless
such a description thereof be furnished, under oath, to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court of said county as will enable the
Clerk of the County Commissioners to transfer the same
properly and intelligently upon said assessment books.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if the transfer be
made upon said assessment books before such deed is offered