NO. 81.
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A FURTHER Additional Supplement to the act
n imposing Duties on Promissory Notes, Bills of
Exchange, Specialties, and other instruments of
writing, to aid in paying the debts of the State.


Section l. Be it enacted by the General assembly
of maryland, That all mortgages and releases of
mortgages, and all such deeds and bills of sale as
are now required by law to be recorded which have
been, or may hereafter be, printed or written on
vellum, skin, parchment paper, or other material,
without the same having been first stamped accord


ing to the provisions of the second section of the ac
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
forty-our shall bet all nents and purposes valid
and available, as if the same had been and were
stamped; Prorided, that when any of the afore-
said instruments of writing presented to the clerk of
any county, or of Howard district, to be recorded
there snail be paid to the clerk, the duty chargeabe
by law on such instrument of writing, which duty
such clerk hereby authorized and required toreceve
and to endorse a receipt therefor under his hand
upon some part of such instruments of writing, and
it shall be the duty of the clerk to record said
ceipt together with the instruments of writing upon
which it is endorsed, and the clerks Of counties and
of Howard district, shall account to the Treasurer
for all sums received, in the same manner as are
required by the ninth section of the act passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and torty-four
chapter two hundred and eighty lind prorlded fur
ther. that the said instrument OF writing so printed
or written upon unstamped vellum, skin, parchment
or paper or other material snail not pe Vand ana
eectual, unless the duty chargable thereon by law
shall be paid to the clerk as in the preceding pro-
viso is directed


Sec. 2. find be 1t enacted, That every one of the
aforesaid instruments of writing, which has been
heretofore recorded without the same having been
stamped as required by law, is hereby declared to be
as valid and available for all intents and purpases
as if the same had been and were so stamped; Pro-
uided, that the duty chargeable by law said in
strument shall have been paid to the clerk of the
county or of Howard sh district lis ned at the time of record
ter the passage of this act.


Sec g. find be 1t enacted, Thatnothing contained
in the act to which this is supplement, shall be so
construed as to require the payment of the duty or
tax therein mentioned, on any deed, when the pro-
perty thereby conveyed shall not exceed two hum
dred dollars and that nothing contained in thisact
shall be so construed as to altar the law, relating