forthwith pass an order requiring a copy of the
said petition to be served on such Clerk or Regis-
ter within five days, and shall within ten days
thereafter take up the case, and if he shall be satis-
fied, from the evidence of the truth of the matters
alleged, he shall pass an order requiring such
Clerk or Register within a specified time to give
counter security, to be approved in the same man-
ner as his original bond; and for every day after
the expiration of such specified time that such
Clerk or Register shall fail to give such counter
security he shall be subject to a penalty of fifty
dollars, which may be recovered by separate ac-
tion for each penalty in the name of the State in
the same manner provided for the recovery of
small debts, and upon judgment for any such
penalty the fees of office of such Clerk or Register,
whether for office work or for State tax on com-
missions, may be attached by way of execution;
and such penalty shall inure and be payable to
the sureties of such Clerk or Register to insure
them against any loss which they may sustain by
the defalcation, misfeasance or malfeasance of such
Clerk or Register.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from and after its passage.

In force.

CHAPTER 285.

AN ACT to incorporate Cecil Lodge number one
hundred and twenty-five of Ancient, Free and
Accepted Masons of Chesapeake City, in Cecil
county,

Passed Mar.
13,1867.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That John W. Harriott, B. P.
Bowen, William Lindsey, Doctor J. V. Wallace,
Powell Smack, Charles Rhodes, Joseph T. Hen-
drick, James Vanhorn and other members and of-
ficers of Cecil Lodge number one hundred and
70

Incorporated.