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o'clock till sun-set, on penalty of six hundred pounds of tobacco —

1748, ch. 7, sec. 3, .........

87

Clerks to be answerable for any mis-feasance or neglect in their office

as if this act had not been made — 1748, ch. 7, sec. 4, .

88

Commissions to be issued by the clerks fur taking depositions, when

directed by the courts — Nov. 1773, ch. 7, sec. 7, ...

126

Directions to the clerks respecting marriage licenses — Feb. 1777, ch.

12, p. 130 ; 1797, ch. 38, ........

345

Duty of the clerks in returning lists of fines, &c. — Feb. 1777, ch. 13,

sec. 4, ...........

134

County clerks may summon witnesses residing in different counties —

Oct. 1777, ch. 12, sec. 1, ........

139

They may issue executions against defendants removed to other coun-

ties— Oct. 1777, ch. 12, sec. 3,4, p. 143 ; 1794, ch. 54, sec. 9,

314

Depositions taken out of court on notice shall be lodged, (with proof

of the notice,) with the county clerk, to be recorded — July, 1779,

ch. 8, sec. 2, ..........

145

Fees to the clerks of the general court and county clerks — Nov. 1779,

ch. 25, sec. 2, 3, .........

147

They shall transcribe and set up in the court-houses the rates of liquors,

&c. assessed by the court — 1780, ch. 24, sec. 4, .

159

Fees to he paid to county clerks for taking the recognizance of a ferry-

keeper, making out his license, and a fair copy of the rates — Nov.

1781, ch. 22, sec. 2, .........

175

Manner of enrolling deeds transmitted from the general court to the

county court, or from the county court to the general court — 1785,

ch. 9, sec. 6, 7, .

194

Manner of transmitting extracts of deeds by the county clerks to the

clerk of the general court, to be recorded — 1785, ch. 9, sec. 6, 7,

194

Directions to the clerks respecting writs of replevin issued for proper-

ty taken for public dues— 1785, ch. 34, p. 195 ; 1790, ch. 53,

265

County clerks may protest inland bills of exchange or orders drawn

by a citizen of another state on a person in this state — 1785, ch. 38,

sec. 2, ...........

198

Their fee for such protest— 1785, ch. 38, sec. 2, ....

198

County courts to record recognizances taken by justices of the peace

from the fathers of illegitimate children — 1785, ch. 47, sec. 2,

203

To issue scire facias on such recognizances, on proof as therein pre-

scribed— 1796, ch. 34, sec. 2, .......

333

Penalty ou county clerks delivering the acts of assembly and the votes

and proceedings to persons to whom they are not directed — 1790,

ch. 51, sec. 14, .....

264

Application to be made to the county clerks by commissioners under

the act for marking and bounding lands for attachments against

witnesses not attending — 1793, ch. 70, sec. 3, ....

303

County clerks directed to keep accurate accounts of the county rate

established by the levy courts, and the disposition thereof— 1794,

ch. 53, sec. 2, ..........

307