1040                             Laws of Maryland                       Ch. 456

citizens who volunteer their time and services to aid in the education
and, counselling of parolees and probationers, and shall function as
a civilian prisoners' aid unit.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970. JANUARY 1, 1971.

Approved April 28, 1970

CHAPTER 456
(House Bill 39)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 40 of
Article 21 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Replacement
Volume), title "Conveyancing," subtitle "Mortgages," and to add
new Section 40A to the same Article, title and subtitle, to follow
immediately after Section 40 thereof, to eliminate the requirement
in those clerks' offices where such records are not preserved in
book form, that the clerk shall enter in the margin of the record
of the original paper a memorandum of the place where the deed
of assignment or release, or proceeding of foreclosure, or report of
sale, is recorded and to require Clerks of the Circuit Courts of the
counties and of the Superior Court of Baltimore City where land
records are not recorded in book form to index all assignments and
releases of mortgages and deeds of trust, whether in long or short
form, in the general alphabetical indices.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 40 of Article 21 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1966 Replacement Volume), title "Conveyancing," subtitle "Mort-
gages," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, and that new Section 40A be and it is hereby added to said
article, title and subtitle, to follow immediately after Section 40
thereof, and all to read as follows:

40.

Whenever any assignment or release of a mortgage, or any release
or assignment of an interest in any deed of trust is made by a
separate deed, or in [any other] the mode [than that] prescribed
in Sections 32, 34, [35] and 36 of this article, and whenever any
proceeding to foreclose a mortgage is had, or a sale under any deed
of trust is made, it shall be the duty of the clerks of the circuit
courts of the counties and the clerk of the Superior Court of Balti-
more to enter in the margin of the record of the original paper a
memorandum of the place where such deed of assignment or release,
or proceeding of foreclosure, or report of sale, as the case may be,
is recorded; this provision, however, shall not apply to those clerks'
offices where such records are not preserved in book form; and
provided, [however,] further, that any such instrument offered for
record shall contain a full and complete reference to the date and
place of the recording of the original paper; and the clerk making
such entry shall charge therefor the sum of twenty-five cents, to be