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for record, the Clerk of the County Commissioners shall certify
tlie fact of said transfer upon the deed; and if said deed be
offered for record without such endorsement, the Clerk of the
Circuit Court before accepting the same for record shall re-
quire 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 upon the county assess-
ment books, the number of acres conveyed by said deed (or, if
a town lot, a description thereof sufficient to identify and locate
the same on said assessment books), the improvements thereon,
the number of arable acres and number of acres set in wood-
land or swamp, and such other information as will with cer-
tainty enable the Clerk of the County Commissioners to
identify and locate the same on the assessment books and to
intelligently make the transfer thereof; and all such sworn
statements shall be, on each Monday morning of every week,
returned by the Clerk of the Circuit Court to the Clerk of
the County Commissioners, and said Clerk of the County Com-
missioners shall forthwith properly record such transfers
upon said assessment books.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the County Com-
missioners of said county shall, immediately upon the passage
of this Act, have printed and furnished to the Clerk of the
Circuit Court, blank forms so printed as to indicate in detail
the information to be obtained by said Clerk from persons
offering deed for record.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from June 1st, 1920.

Approved April 16. 1920.

CHAPTER 339.

AN ACT to repeal the charter of the Port Deposit Water
Company.

WHEREAS, The Port Deposit Water Company was incorpor-
ated under the Public General Laws of Maryland, relating to
corporations, on October 9, 1896, for the purpose of supply-
ing water to the citizens of Port Deposit, Cecil County, Mary-
land, for domestic and industrial purposes; and

WHEREAS, The President and Town Commissioners of Port
Deposit, a municipal corporation of the State of Maryland,