912 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 328

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That no deed or deeds conveying real estate or chattels
real, situated or located in Worcester County, Maryland, shall
be admitted to record among the land records of the Circuit
Court for said County unless such deed is first presented to the
Clerk, of the Board of County Commissioners' of said County
for the purpose of making the proper transfer of such property
upon the assessment books of said county, or unless, upon such
deed being first presented to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
said County for record, such a description thereof be furnished
to the Clerk of the Circuit Court as will enable the Clerk of the
County Commissioners to transfer the property 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 said deed is offered for
record, the Clerk of the County Commissioners shall certify
the 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 in whose name the
property transferred stands upon the County Assessment Books,
the number of acres conveyed by said deed (or if a town lot, a
description thereof sufficient to identify and locate same on said
Assessment Books), the improvements thereon, the number or
approximate number of arable acres and the number or approxi-
mate number of acres set in woodland or swamp and such other
information as will enable the Clerk of the County Commis-
sioners to identify and locate the same on the Assessment Books
and intelligently to 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 said County
Commissioners shall forthwith properly record such transfers
upon said Assessment Books. And the Clerk of the Circuit
Court shall be permitted to add twenty-five cents to his record-
ing fee for each deed that is presented to him for record with-
out having first been presented to the Clerk of the County Com-
missioners, as above provided.

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