ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 39

CHAPTER 24.

AN ACT to authorize and provide for new general indexes to
the Land Records and Judgments in the Office of the Clerk
of the Circuit Court for Harford County.

WHEREAS, The present general indexes of the Land Records
and of Judgments in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Harford County are in bad condition and are wholly
unsatisfactory, whereby much inconvenience is caused, and

serious and costly mistakes are likely to occur; and

WHEREAS, It is necessary to take immediate steps to provide
said office with proper and workable general indexes.

SECTION 1. Be U enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Circuit Court for Harford County shall appoint
a committee of three competent persons, members of the bar of
said Court, to select a satisfactory system of general Laud and
Judgment indexes for the offices of the Clerk of the said Court,
to purchase all books needed therefor, to contract for the mak-
ing of said indexes, to verify, in conjunction with the Clerk of
said Court, the accuracy of said indexes, when made; and to
do all things that may be necessary and proper to do in the
premises.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said Court shall
have full power to fill vacancies on said committee, whenever
and however they may occur.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the total cost of
the necessary books, and the making and verification of said
indexes, up to the date of the passage of this Act, shall not
exceed the sum of three thousand dollars ($3, 000. 00); and
that the excess fees of said Clerk's office shall, after the office
fixtures are installed and paid for, be devoted to the payment
thereof, until the same is fully paid.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law, and necessary to the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety; and, having
been passed by a yea and nay vote of three-fifths of the mem-
bers of the two Houses of the General Assembly, shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 5, 1924.