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Liber B. L. C.
p. 440
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public Offices, or cause or suffer any Person or Persons to take,
remove or carry out of their respective public Offices, any Books,
Papers or other Records to their own Houses, or to any other Place,
upon any Pretence whatsoever, and the same so keep or cause or
suffer to be kept out of their respective public Offices, at any Time
between the Hours of Eleven at Night and Six in the Morning,
under Penalty of Ten Pounds Current Money for every Offence;
one Moiety thereof to the Informer, or to him or her that shall sue
for the same, the other Moiety to be applied to the Use of the School
of the County wherein the Offence shall be committed; to be recov-
ered in any Court of Record in this Province, by Action of Debt,
Bill of Indictment, Plaint or Information, wherein no Essoin, Pro-
tection or Wager of Law, or more than one Imparlance, shall be
allowed." And whereas several of the County Clerks within this
Province, in Behalf of themselves and others of the said County
Clerks, have humbly represented to this present General Assembly,
that by the above-recited Act, they and all other the County Clerks
aforesaid, are laid under such Hardships that it is not practicable
for them to execute that Duty, inasmuch as a great Part of their
Business must of Necessity be done in the Winter Season, and that
their Dwellings are at some Distance from their several and respec-
tive Court-Houses. This present General Assembly having taken
the said Representation into Consideration, and being well satisfied
of the Truth of the Facts mentioned therein, are willing and desir-
ous to remove the Hardships complained of ;
Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's
Governour, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That from and after the Tenth Day of July
next, it shall and may be lawful to and for the several and respective
County Clerks within this Province, to take, remove or carry out of
their respective public Offices, the last recording Book for Judgments
by them kept in their several and respective public Offices, together
with the four last Courts-Dockets and Papers next preceeding the
Time of such taking out, and the same to keep at their own Houses,
or any other Place more suitable to their Conveniency within the
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[County
Clerks may
remove some
of their
Records.]
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County, for and during such Time as to them, or any of them, shall
seem necessary, without being liable to incur the Penalty in the
above-recited Act mentioned, any thing therein contained to the
Contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
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[Obliged to
attend their
Offices one
Day in a
Week.]
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And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the
several and respective County Clerks within this Province, shall be
and they are hereby obliged to attend at their several and respective
County Court Houses one or more Days in every Week, to be ap-
pointed and published by the several County Courts next after the
Commencement of this Act, and to remain there, either by them-
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