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same when so recorded shall be binding, and have the same
effect in law, to all intents and purposes as if the original list,
or entry and record thereof, had not been destroyed.

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SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That in all cases when the judg-
ment or equity records, and the original papers thereto belong-
ing, shall have been destroyed, the docket entries and short
copies of judgments and decrees taken from the dockets of the
county courts aforesaid, under the seal of Worcester county
court, with a certificate that the record and papers in the
cases (that) have been destroyed, shall be received and admit-
ted in evidence in any court of law or equity in this state.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act for the benefit and relief of
the Citizens of Worcester County, and all persons concerned in the
Records thereof, which may have been destroyed by the burning of the
Court-house of said County, passed at December session, eighteen hun-
dred and thirty-five, chapter two hundred and seventy-nine. — 1838,
ch. 287.

Short co-
pies of
judgments,
&c. to be
evidence.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be incumbent
on any plaintiff or defendant, in any suit now pending, or
hereafter to be brought, to produce the original judgment, or
the record thereof, to entitle such plaintiff or defendant to pro-
duce in evidence any fieri facias, or capias ad satisfaciendum,
issued by the clerk of Worcester county court, but such party
may produce such fieri facias, or capias ad satisfaciendum, or
an authenticated copy, or record thereof, and the same shall be
legal and competent evidence, abd the recitals in said fieri
facias, or capias ad satisfaciendum, shall be prima facie evi-

Production
of original
judgment
dispensed
with.

dence of the judgment so recited ; Provided nevertheless, that
this law shall not extend to any judgment rendered since the
first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-five.

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AN ACT to amend and reduce into one, the several Acts of Assembly
relating to the Public Roads in Worcester County. — 1821, ch. 110.

Proviso.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the justices of the levy court of Worcester county, or a
majority of them, be, and they are hereby authorized and re-
quired, at their first meeting in the year eighteen hundred and
twenty-two, and at their first meeting in each and every year
thereafter, to describe, ascertain and distinctly record, in a book
to be provided for that purpose, the several and respective pub-
lic roads and highways in said county, and to divide the same
into as many districts as to the said court shall seem meet and
proper.

Levy court
to describe
and record
public
roads; dis-
tricts.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said levy court, or a
majority of them, shall proceed to appoint a capable and suita-
ble person to each district, as supervisor of the said district of

Supervisors