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Local Laws of St. Mary's County (1965 Edition, being Article 19 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland), title "St. Mary's
County," to follow immediately after Section 93 thereof, to be under
the new subtitle "Land Records," and to read as follows:

Land Records
93 A.

The Clerk of the Circuit Court for St. Mary's County shall not
accept for inclusion among the Land Records of St. Mary's County
any deed, assignment, mortgage, deed of trust or other document
concerning real property unless such instrument has been prepared
by an attorney, duly admitted to practice before the Court of Appeals
of Maryland, or by an employee of such attorney or by one of the
parties named in the instrument.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the provisions of this Act shall
not affect the validity of the filing of any documents by the Clerk of
the Circuit Court of St. Mary's County, which were filed prior to the
effective date of this Act.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1968.

Approved April 10, 1968.

CHAPTER 253
(House Bill 525)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 217(b)
of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replace-
ment Volume and 1967 Supplement), title "Licenses," subtitle
"Real Estate Brokers," to increase the amount of the corporate
bond required to be supplied by real estate brokers.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 217(b) of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1964 Replacement Volume and 1967 Supplement), title "Licenses,"
subtitle "Real Estate Brokers," be and it is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

217.

(b) Every applicant for a license under the provisions of this
subtitle shall apply for said license in writing upon blank forms
prepared by the Commission, and every applicant for a real restate
broker's or salesman's license shall be at least twenty-one years of
age; and provided further that every licensed real estate broker shall
provide a corporate bond in the sum of [$5,000] $10,000 and every
licensed real estate salesman shall provide a corporate bond in the
sum of $1,000.00 for the use and benefit of the public who may suffer
or sustain any loss by reason of a violation of this subtitle by such
brokers or salesmen. The license of any licensee under this subtitle
who fails to file with the Commission acceptable evidence that his,