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LAWS OF MARYLAND,

1811.

CHAPTER 11.

Passed Dec. 27,
1811.

An act to authorise the Justices of the Orphans'
Court of Montgomery county, to cause the re-
cords of said court to be transcribed.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, It is represented to this General

Assembly, that some of the records of the orphans'
court of Montgomery county are in a ruinous situa-
tion, and as it is necessary that the said records should
be kept safe and secured: Therefore

Justices of the

orphans court
of Montgomery
county are au-
thorised to have
some of the re-
cords transcrib-
ed.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the justices of the orphans' court of
Montgomery county, be, and they are hereby author-
ised and empowered to employ a suitable person to
transcribe into a well bound blank book or books, with
an alphabet, all such records and papers, and all such
parts of the minutes and proceedings, as the said justi-
ces shall deem necessary, in a plain, legible hand writ-
ing.

Transcriber's
oath.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That before the per-
son so employed shall proceed to copy the said records,
he shall take the following oath or affirmation before
some person authorised to administer the same: "I, A
B, do solemnly swear or affirm, (as the case may be, )
that I will make a true transcript from the records,
papers and minutes which I am directed to copy by
the justices of the orphans' court of Montgomery
county, without mutilation or alteration; so held me
God. "

Expenses to be
levied on. the
county.

AND BE IT ENACTED, That the person em-
ployed as aforesaid, shall be allowed for his services
aforesaid, the sum of ten cents for each and every
side which he shall copy; which said sums, as well as
the costs of the books aforesaid, shall be levied on the
assessable property of Montgomery county aforesaid.,
and collected in the same manner as other county
charges are levied and collected, and when levied and
collected, the justices of the orphans' court of Mont-
gomery county, are hereby directed to pay the same to
the person employed by them for the purpose aforesaid,
or to his order.

CHAPTER 12.

Passed Dec. 27,
1811.

An act authorising the Levy court of Washington
county, to appoint commissioners to lay off the
road therein mentioned.

Levy court are

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of