II.  Be it therefore Enacted, by  the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, 
by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and the Upper
and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same, That from and
after the last Day of March, which shall be in the Year of our Lord One
Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty-three, it shall not be lawful for the Secretary,
Register in Chancery, Commissary, Register of the Land-Office, or
other person who shall be appointed to receive the Fees of the same Land-Office,
or the several an respective County Clerks, within this Province,
their Deputies, Officers, or Under Clerks, who shall have the keeping of the
said Secretary's Chancery, Commissary's Land, or County Court, Offices,
committed to them, to take upon themselves the keeping any of the said
Records, or to receive or apply to their Use any of the Fees, Profits or Benefits,
arising, or to arise, from their said several and respective Offices, until
such Secretary, Register in Chancery, Commissary-General, Register in the
Land-Office, or the Person or Persons to whom the Care and Keeping of the
said Land-Office is or shall be committed, by what Denomination soever he
or they may or shall be called, and the said several and respective County
Clerks within this Province, or such County Clerks as shall hereafter be appointed,
whether for any Counties now being, or which shall hereafter be
laid out, appointed, or nominated, have entered into Bond, with Two good,
able and sufficient Sureties, being Persons of visible and landed Estates within 
this Province, in the Name of the Lord Proprietary, That is to say, The
Secretary for the Provincial Office, in the Sum of Three Thousand Pounds
Current Money; the same Secretary, Register in Chancery, or whoever receives
the Profit and Benefit of the Fees accruing in the Chancery-Office, in
the Sum of One Thousand Pounds Current Money; the Commissary-General,
for the Commissary's-Office, in the Sum of Three Thousand Pounds
Current Money; the Register of the Land-Office, or by whatever other Denomination
the Person or Persons is, are, or shall be called, to whom the said
Office and Perquisites is, are, or shall be committed, in the Sum of Three
Thousand Pounds of Current Money; and the several and respective County
Clerks within this Province, now being, or who shall hereafter be nominated
or appointed, respectively, whether of Counties now laid out or appointed,
or of Counties which hereafter shall be laid out and appointed, in the Sum of
One Thousand Pounds Current Money:  All which Bonds respectively, shall
be Conditioned as follows;
    " The Condition of the above Obligation is such, That if the above bounden
"                        whilst he shall continue in the Office of             shall at his
" own proper Cost and Charge, find a Supply of good and sufficient Record Books,
" necessary for the Entring up of all Matters and Things relating to such
" Office, and shall and will make, or cause to be made and entered, true, legal and
" perfect Records and Entries, according to the Truth an Nature of the Matter
" or Thing requiring to be Entred or Recorded, and shall duly and carefully look
" after, sustain, preserve, repair and maintain all the several Books, Papers and
" Records, now being and remaining in the said Office, as also all those that from
" Time to Time, during his Continuance in the said Office, shall be added thereunto,
" in such Manner, as that in case of Death or that he shall be legally dismissed
" from officiating longer in the said Office, be the said                his Executors
" or Administrators, shall surrender and deliver up, or cause to be surrendered and
" delivered up, to the next person who shall succeed him in the said                 Office,
" in good Order and Repair, as also all such other Papers and Recorded Books
" which shall be by him added, in like good Order and Repair, with the Records and
" Entries faithfully, legally and truly made up and entred during the Time he hath
" officiated in the said                     Office, without Favour or Affection, but according