CHAP.
VII.
County
Clerks may
remove out of
the Office,
the last recording
Book
for Judgments,
and
the four last
Court dockets
and Papers.
Their Attendance
at
the Court-houses.
Penalty for
Neglect
therein.
Shall be
chargeable
with Misfeazance.
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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 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 preceding 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 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.
III. 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 appointed and published by the several
County Courts next after the Commencement of this Act, and to remain
there, either by themselves, or Deputy, from Nine of the Clock in the
Forenoon, until Sun-set, and then and there give all possible Dispatch
to the
necessary Business of such Person or Persons, as shall apply to them for
the
same. And that every County Clerk who shall neglect, or delay, to
perform
his Duty herein, shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Six Hundred Pounds of
Tobacco; one Half whereof to the Use of the County-School, and the other
Half to him, her, or them, that shall sue for the same; to be recovered
before
a single Magistrate of the County where such Forfeiture shall happen, as
in case of small Debts.
IV. Provided
always, and be it Enacted, That nothing in this Act, shall
extend, or be construed to extend, to prevent any Clerk from being chargeable
for any Misfeazance or Neglect in his Office, in the same Manner as if
this Act had never been made.
V. This Act to continue for Three Years, and
to the End of the next Session
of Assembly which shall happen after the End of the said Three Years.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
Farther continued
by 1751, ch. 8; 1754, ch. 5; 1757, ch. 22; and 1762,
ch. 13.
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