154 LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1779.
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services you shall do as deputy clerk of the said office; and
also, that in making out of the office fees, you will not wittingly
or willingly charge other or higher fees than limited by the act,
entitled, An act for the regulation of officers' fees;' which said
oaths before mentioned shall be severally returned by the judge,
justice or alderman, before whom the same shall be taken, to
the general court or county offices, as the case shall require,
within twenty days after the taking thereof, under the penalty
of twenty pounds for every neglect, and shall there be recorded
by the clerk of such court) under the penalty of twenty pounds
for every neglect. |
Proceed-
ings not to
be recorded
&c. |
SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That in all actions or suits
brought or prosecuted, or hereafter to be brought or prosecuted,
in any of the courts in this state, and the same are or shall be
entered agreed, struck off, discontinued or abated, or shall be
otherwise ended before final judgment or final decree, the pro-
ceedings shall not be recorded, unless at the request of the plain-
tiff or defendant, or his agent or attorney, signified in writing,
directed to the clerk of the said courts respectively; and if the
same proceedings be recorded without such request, no fees
whatever shall be payable for such service; and all officers men-
tioned by this act shall be obliged to set up in the most public
place of his office, and there constantly keep, a fair table of the
fees rated and established by this act, under the penalty of fifty
pounds for every month he shall neglect to do the same.
The manner in which the proceedings of the courts of justice are to be
recorded can be gathered from this section, in connection with 1817, ch.
119, and 1826, ch. 247.
SEC. 11. By 1822, ch. 219, fees may be sent out at any time, but cannot
be executed for until sixty days after delivery, unless the party is about to
abscond or remove. |
Surveyor
not lo be
paid for
erroneous
certificates,
&c. |
SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That where any surveyor returns
a certificate for the examination of the examiner-general, and
the same shall be by him found erroneous, in such case the
party, for whose use such survey is made, shall not be bur-
thened with any fees on such erroneous certificate, either by the
examiner-general or surveyor, but the surveyor returning such
erroneous certificate, shall pay the examiner-general for his
trouble in examining the same, one-third part of such fees as
by this act are allowed to the examiner-general. |
Sheriff may
execute,
&c. |
SEC 13. And be if enacted, That any sheriff within this state
may, and he is hereby directed and required, at any time be-
tween the first day of May and the tenth day of August yearly,
(on notice to him given that any inhabitant of his county
indebted for officers' fees, and for which an account had been,
before the said first day of May, delivered to or left at the
last place of abode of such inhabitant, is about to abscond or |
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