638 Assembly Proceedings, May 16-July 11, 1747

Session Laws

ness belonging to the Office you officiate in, and that you will not ask
or demand from, or charge to, any such Person or Persons, any Fee
or Reward whatsoever, for any Service you shall do as Clerk of
the said Office for your Principal; and also that in making out the
Office Fees for your Principal, you will not wittingly or willingly
charge other or higher Fees than limitted by the Act entituled, An
Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco, for preventing Frauds in
his Majesty's Customs, and for the Limitation of Officers Fees.
Which said Oaths before-mentioned, shall be severally returned
by the Magistrate before whom the same shall be taken, to the
Provincial or County Offices, as the case shall require, and be there
entred on Record. And that all and every Person or Persons, claim-

Table of
Fees

ing right to any Fee or Fees allowed by this Act, shall be obliged to
set up and affix in the most public Place of his Office, a Table of
Fees, to the intent that all Persons concerned may have recourse to
the same.

Execution
for Fees to
issue but
once a Year

And be it further Enacted, That no Officer or Officers herein
before-mentioned, under the Penalty aforesaid, to be recovered as
aforesaid, shall make or send out their Fees on Execution but once
in every Year, and that between the First Day of December and the
Twenty-fifth Day of the same Month, yearly, during the continu-
ance of this Act; and that the Party or Parties charged, their Per-
sons, Goods or Chattels, shall not be executed for any of the afore-
said Fees, unless their Accounts be delivered them at or before the
Twentieth Day of February in any Year they shall be demanded.

Deputy-Sur-
veyors re-
turning
erroneous
Certificates

And be it further Enacted, That wherever any Deputy-Surveyor
returns a Certificate or Certificates for the Examination of the
Examiner-General, and that the same shall be found Erroneous, that
in such case the Party for whose use such Survey is made, shall not
be burthened with double Fees, either by the Examiner-General, or
Deputy-Surveyor; but that the several Deputy-Surveyors shall pay
the Examiner-General for any extraordinary Trouble they give him
in Re-examining such Fees as by this Act is allowed to the Examiner-
General.

Duration of
this Act

This Act to be in Force from the First Day of December, Seven-
teen hundred and forty-eight, until the full End and Term of Five
Years.

Chapter III

An Act to remedy some Proceedings in the Court of Charles County,
and to prevent the Removal of the Records from the Public
Offices.

Preamble

Whereas a Fire broke out suddenly, in the House of Mr. Edmund
Porteus, Clerk of Charles County Court, on the Sixteenth Day of
December last past, and raged so violently, that notwithstanding
the utmost endeavours, the said House, together with several orig-
inal Papers in Causes depending in the Courts held in the Months
of June, August and November, were consumed: And whereas there