JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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CHAPTER 257.

AN ACT to authorize the Commissioner of the

Land Office to continue the indexing of certain

Land Records and extracts of deeds transferred to

the Land Office from the office of the Clerk of the

Court of Appeals, under act of eighteen hundred

and seventy-four, chapter sixty-six.

SECTION 1. Be.it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That the Commissioner of the Land Office

be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to

Authorized

continue the indexing of certain land records and

and empow-
ered.

extracts of deeds which were transferred to the

Land Office from the office of the Clerk of the Court

of Appeals, under act of eighteen hundred and seven-

ty-four, chapter sixty-six, and such extracts of deeds

as shall hereafter be received by him from the Clerks

of the Circuit Courts of this State, for which said

service there shall be allowed and paid the same

rates allowed by law to the Clerks of the Circuit

Courts for similar services.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Comptroller of

the Treasury, be and he is hereby directed to issue

Issue warrant

his warrant for such sum or sums as may from time

to time be necessary to meet the cost of such index-

ing, upon the certificate of the correctness of the

same given by the Commissioner of the Land Office.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its approval by the Governor.

In force.

Approved April 7, 1876.