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CHAPTER 12.

AN ACT to prohibit the recording of any deed conveying real
estate or chattels real, located in Anne Arundel County,
among the Land Records of said County until the property
thereby conveyed and assigned has been transferred on the
assessment books in the office of the County Commissioners
of Anne Arundel County, and public taxes, assessments and
charges paid on said property.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That no deed conveying real estate or chattels real, located
in Anne Arundel County, shall be admitted to record among
the Land Records of Anne Arundel County until the property
conveyed and assigned has been transferred on the assessment
books in the office of the County Commissioners of said County
to the grantee or assignee named in such deed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That upon the transfer
of any such property on said assessment books, the Clerk of the
County Commissioners shall endorse the fact of such transfer
on the deed, which shall be sufficient to authorize the receipt
of such deed for record by the Clerk of the Circuit Court.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That such property shall
not be transferred on the assessment books in the Office of said
County Commissioners unless and until all public taxes, assess-
ments and charges due on said property for the current year
and all prior years shall have been paid to the Treasurer of
the County and Collector of State and County Taxes for said
County.

SEC. 4. And it is further enacted, That no deed conveying
real estate or chattels real located in Anne Arundel County
shall be admitted to record among the Land Records of Anne
Arundel County until the grantee has 'given his full name and

address and true consideration to the Clerk of the County Com-
missioners of said County.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1927.

Approved March 23, 1927.

CHAPTER 13.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 6 of
Article 52 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924 Edi-
tion), title "Justices of the Peace, " sub-title "'Civil Jurisdic-