12                                Laws of Maryland                           Ch. 9

each year of service as a resident maintenance engineer, or in a
position doing similar work, shall be considered as a year of service
as a junior assistant highway engineer, grade I.] All vacancies
in the position of resident maintenance engineer shall be filled by
the State Roads Commission, in accordance with the provisions of
Article 64A.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved January 30, 1959.

CHAPTER 9
(Senate Bill 3)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 67 of
Article 21 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Conveyancing," sub-title "Conditional Contracts of Sale,"
relating to the effective date of recording conditional sale con-
tracts and authorizing their destruction and relating generally to
conditional sale contracts in this State.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 67 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Conveyancing," sub-title "Conditional Con-
tracts of Sale," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

67. (a). Any recording pursuant to Section 66 of this article shall
be effective only for a period of [three (3)] four (4) years from
the date of recording. Thereafter, except as between the parties, the
recorded obligation, unless re-recorded, shall be conclusively pre-
sumed to have been discharged and shall not operate either as actual
or constructive notice to any person.

(b). Any instrument recorded pursuant to Section 66 of this
Article and thereafter retained in the offices of the respective Clerks
of the Circuit Court for the several counties and the Clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City for a period of five (5) years from
the date of recording may be destroyed after compliance with the
provisions of Sections 177, 178 and 180 of Article 41 of this Code,
title "Governor—Executive and Administrative Departments".

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1959.

Approved February 16, 1959.

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.