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154. If the Commission shall decline to accept any original papers,
official books, records, documents or files offered to it under the pro-
visions of Section 153, then the custodian thereof, with the written
approval of the Board of Public Works, is authorized and empowered
to destroy the same. After such records are destroyed, the custodian
thereof shall file with the Hall of Records a list of all papers, books,
documents and files destroyed and a certificate of destruction. Such
lists shall be retained in the custody of the Archivist and shall be
available at reasonable times to inspection by the members of the
public. Nothing in this section shall authorize the destruction of (a)
papers, books, documents or files which have been in custody for a
period of less than three years or such other period as may be ex-
pressly prescribed by statute, (b) public records expressly required
by statute to be maintained permanently, except in those cases where
the original record has been photographed, photocopied, or micro-
photographed in accordance with the provisions of Section 157 of
Article 41 and, provided that the copy or reproduction of the original
record be available upon request in the same manner as the original
record, (c) permanent books of account, (d) the records of any court
of record in this State, (E) THE LAND RECORDS RECORDED BY
THE RESPECTIVE CLERKS OF THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR
THE SEVERAL COUNTIES AND THE CLERK OF THE SU-
PERIOR COURT OF BALTIMORE CITY; but old records of which
accurate transcriptions have been made and placed in use, under the
terms of Article 26, Section 14, and the "housekeeping" records or
the records of internal management of the offices of clerks of court
and registers of wills shall not be considered "records of a court" for
the purpose of this section and Sections 155 and 156 and shall be sub-
ject to disposal as described above, provided, however, that the books,
accounts, and records pertaining to the financial operations of any
agency or department, officers, boards and commissions of the State
of Maryland, and of all clerks of courts, registers of wills, and all
collectors of the State taxes of the State of Maryland, including the
City of Baltimore, in so far as they affect the collection of State taxes,
shall not be destroyed until such time as the requirements of Article
19, Sections 29 to 34, inclusive (1951 Annotated Code), relating to
the audit of such books, accounts and records by the State Auditor,
shall have been complied with.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1956.

Approved March 8, 1956.

CHAPTER 83
(House Bill 18)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 113 (a) of
Article 66 1/2₂ of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition),

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