GEORGE HOWARD, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1631

instruments of writing recorded again, and the clerk of
Saint Mary's county, is hereby required upon application
of the party or parties interested, to have the same deed
or deeds, or other instrument of writing recorded, together

CHAP. 175.

with the endorsement of the former enrolment, endorsed on
said deed or deedd, or other instrument of writing, in a
well bound book, in folio, for that purpose, and to be regu-

Record books

larly alphabeted, in the name of all the parties, and in the
name of the lands, and quantify of acres, and the said clerk
shall, or the back of the said deed or deeds, or instrument

Alphabeted.

of writing, make an endorsement of such second enrol-
ment, and also, the folio of the book in which the same
shall be enrolled, and shall put fiis name thereto, which en-

Endorsement.

rolment shall be made at the expense and cost of the per-
on or persons requiring the same.

Compensation.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That any person or pensons in-
terested in any lands in the county aforesaid, and the ori-
ginal deed or deeds thereof, and the record thereof, have
both been burnt or distroyed, upon application to the 61erk
of the Court of Appeals, for an extract or extracts of the
said deed or deeds, so as aforesaid destroyed, the clerk is
hereby requested to furnish to the party or parties applying
for such extract or extracts, a copy or copies of the same,
under the seal of his office, at the cost and expense of the
person or persons so applying for the same as aforesaid,

Abstracts from the
rccouls of the court
of appeals.

and the said person or persons, may have the same extract
or extracts recorded, in Saint Mary's county, and the clerk
of Saint Mary's county upon application is hereby required
to have the extract or extracts aforesaid, recorded in the re-
cord books aforesaid; and that the same be alphabeted in
the same manner that the deeds and other instruments of
writing are alphabeted, which said enrolment shall be made
at the expense and costs of the party or parties requiring the
same.

Mat be recordef

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the deeds or deed, or
other instruments of writing, and the extracts aforesaid,
when so as aforesaid enrolled, shall have the same effect and
operation in law, to all intents and purposes, as if the re-
cords aforesaid, in which the said deed or deeds, or other
instruments of writing were heretofore enrolled, had never
been destroyed.

such records made
valiff

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That the clerk of Saint Mary's
county conrt be, and is hereby required, to cause extracts
to be made out of all deeds enrolled in his office, under the
law previous to the seventh day of March, seventeen hun-
dred and ninety-six; and also, extracts of all deeds dated
between that time and the law of the fourth day of January,
eighteen hundred and seven, passed at November session
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Extracts of enrol-
led deeds &c to
be made.