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city or town in Dorchester County shall be received for
record by the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Dorchester
County the person offering said deed for record shall sub-
mit the same to the Clerk of the Commissioners of said
city or town who shall thereupon make a transfer upon the
assessment books of the said city or town of the said prop-
erty to the name of the new owner or owners thereof.
Before such property shall be transferred on the said
assessment books, all public taxes, assessments and charges
for the current year and all prior years shall have been
paid, and as evidence of said transfer the Clerk to the
Commissioners of said city or town shall stamp upon said
deed his certificate thereof, and no deed shall be received
for record without said certificate. At the time of submit-
ting the deed to the Clerk to the Commissioners of said
city or town the person or persons offering the same shall
furnish said clerk with a statement of the buildings, if any,
upon the land conveyed by said deed. The Clerk of the
Circuit Court shall not record or accept for record any
deed without the certificate of the Clerk to the Commis-
sioners of said city or town as herein provided. This section
shall not apply to confirmatory deeds.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1953.

Approved April 6, 1953.

CHAPTER 281
(Senate Bill 366)

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Mayor and City
Council of Taneytown to borrow upon the faith and
credit of the said The Mayor and City Council of
Taneytown, a municipal body corporate of the State of
Maryland, a sum or sums of money not exceeding the
sum of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500, 000. 00);
and to issue serial bonds for the payment of the same
and the interest thereon, and to use the proceeds thereof
for the purpose of paying the cost and expenses inci-
dent to preliminary surveys, reports and estimates of

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