954 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 493

Section 184. A release of a deed of trust may be made in
the following form or other like effect:

"For value received we or I, the trustee or trustees,
named in the within or above deed of trust, do here-
by release the above or within deed of trust, the note
or notes secured thereby, having been exhibited to us
duly marked cancelled and paid.

Witness our hands or my hand, and seal or seals,
this..... day of........, A. D....... "

Section 185. Such release may be written by the trustee or
trustees upon the record in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County where the deed of trust to be
released is recorded and attested by the Clerk of the Court;
and the Clerk at the time of recording each deed of trust shall
leave a blank space at the foot thereof for the purpose of enter-
ing such release.

Section 186. Or such a release may be endorsed on the orig-
inal deed of trust by the trustee or trustees; and upon such
deed of trust with the release thereon endorsed, being filed in
the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, the Clerk shall record such release at the foot of the
deed of trust.

Section 187. When the deed of trust with the release there-
on is filed for the purpose of recording the release, the Clerk
shall retain such deed of trust in his office and not permit the
same to be again withdrawn; provided, however, that if the
release is partial in its character after the recording of same,
the Clerk may permit the deed of trust to be withdrawn.

Section 188. Each release executed in either of the above
modes shall be construed and deemed sufficient to release said
deed of trust as fully and effectually as any instrument of
writing whatever could do.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1927.

Approved April 5, 1927.