1846.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 61.

hundred and forty-five, chapter one hundred and ninety-
three, shall be to all intents and purposes as valid and
available, as if the same had been and were so stamped ;

Provisoes.

provided, that when any one of the aforesaid instrument

of writing presented to the clerk of any county, or of
Howard District, to be recorded, there shall be paid to
the clerk the duly chargeable by law on such instrument
of writing, which duty such clerk is hereby authorised
and required to receive, and to endorse a receipt therefor,
under his hand, upon some part of such instrument of
Writing, and it shall be the duly of the clerk to record said
receipt, together with instrument of writing upon which it
is endorsed, and the clerks of counties and of Howard
District, shall account to the treasurer for all sums so re-
ceived, in the same manner as required by the ninth sec-
tion of the act passed at December session eighteen hun-
dred and forty-four, chapter two hundred and eighty; and
provided, further, that the said instruments of writing so
printed or written upon unstamped vellum, skin, parch-
ment or paper or other material, shall not be so valid and I
effectual, unless the duty chargeable thereon by law, 1
shall be paid to the clerk, as in the preceding proviso is
directed.

Valid and
available.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That every of the afore-
said instruments of writing, which has been heretofore
recorded without the same having been stamped as re-
quired by law, is hereby declared to be valid and availa-
ble for all intents and purposes as if the same had been

and were so stamped; provided, that the duty chargeable
by law on said instrument shall have been paid to the
clerk of the county, or of Howard District, at the time of
recording the same, or shall be paid within six months
after the passage of this act.

No duty on
tax under $200.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That nothing contained in
the act to which this is a supplement, shall be so con-
strued as to require the payment of the duty or tax
therein mentioned, on any deed, when the property there-
by conveyed shall not exceed two hundred dollars; and
that nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as
to alter the present law relating to the recording of deeds,
and other instruments of writing mentioned in the first
section of this act.

Repealed, Sec

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the fourteenth sec-
tion of the act passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and forty-four, chapter two-hundred and eighty,
limiting the operation of said act to the first day of May,
eighteen hundred and forty-eight be, and the same is