JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

the-Bay shall furnish the County Commissioners of said county
an alphabetical list of all persons in said town or owning
property therein, against whom taxes of any kind may be
assessed; and of all property owned or held by each, and the
assessment of the same as it shall then stand, which list shall
be the basis of the record provided hereby, but which may be
revised, added to or corrected, by said County Commissioners
exactly as under existing law.

Sec. 33. In elections for Commissioners of said town it
shall be necessary only to give public notice by posting writ-
ten or printed notices in three of the most public places in
said town for three successive weeks next prior to said elec-
tion.

Approved March 29, 1900.

CHAPTER 126.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section one
of Article 17 of the Code of Public General Laws,
title "Clerks of Courts," and to re-enact the same with
amendments.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section one of Article 17 of the Code of Public
General Laws, title "Clerks of Courts," be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, so as to
read as follows: Every clerk shall have the custody of the
books and papers pertaining to his office, and shall carefully
keep and preserve the same; he shall file all papers delivered
to him to be filed, and shall record all judgments, decrees,
deeds and writings which by law are required to be recorded
in the office of which he is clerk; he shall issue all writs and
process which by law may be issued from the court of which
he is clerk; he shall give a copy of any paper or record in his
office to any person applying for the same, upon being paid
the usual fees for transcribing such paper or record, and shall
annex thereto his certificate, under the seal of his court, if
required; he shall make proper entries of all the proceedings
in the court of which he is clerk; and all entries and records
shall be made in a fair, legible hand, or with a typewriting
machine, such machine to be approved by the Judges of the
Circuit Court for the respective counties or the Supreme
Bench of Baltimore City, as the case may be, in well-bound
books procured by him for that purpose; and he shall per-
form all the duties required of him, or which may hereafter
be required of him, by law.

Public Gen eral
Laws.

Amended

Clerks of
Courts.
Duties of.