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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1805.

purpose whatever, and shall have the same operation in law, as
copies, transcripts jand exemplifications, heretofore drawn, made
out and authenticated, by either clerk of the general court, and
certified in the manner prescribed by law.

Where
chancellor
is interest-
ed, chief
judge of the
district to
decree, &c.

SEC. 19. And be it enacted, That in all cases where the
chancellor is or may be interested, and where bills in chancery
may properly lie, the chief judge of the district in which the
chancery court shall sit, shall hear, determine, order and decree
thereon, in the same manner as if such chief judge was the
chancellor, and an appeal may lie in such cases from the decree
of the judge to the court of appeals, who may hear and determine
in the same as on appeals from the chancery court ; Provided,
that the process on all such cases shall be issued by the register
in chancery, tested in the name of the said judge.

Extracts of
deeds to be
transmitted
to the clerk
of the court
of appeals
of the shore

•1785, ch. 9.

SEC. 20. And be it enacted, That in all cases where the
clerks of the county courts are directed by law* to transmit re-
cords, entries, transcripts of deeds recorded in the land records
of their respective counties, to the clerk of the general court, the
said clerks of the several counties shall be and they are hereby
directed to transmit the same to the clerks of the court of
appeals of the respective shore, who shall enter the same in a
record book, (to be provided and kept for that purpose only,) and
the transcript shall be safely kept among the papers of the office
of the court of appeals of the respective shore ; and the said
clerks of the court of appeals shall respectively be entitled to
receive one shilling for each deed in each transcript mentioned ;
and the said record entries, or copies of the same properly and
legally authenticated, shall be of the same force, validity and
effect, as record entries in the office of the general court, or copies
thereof, heretofore have been, and subject nevertheless to the
same proviso.
SEC. 21. Supplanted by 1828, ch. 182.

Process re-
turnable on
the days
limited for
holding the
county
court.

SEC. 22. And be it enacted. That from and after the passing
of this act, and the promulgation thereof in the respective coun-
ties, it shall and may be lawful for the respective clerks of the
present county courts to issue process returnable to the county
courts on the days herein before limited for holding said courts
in their respective counties, and such process, so to be issued,
shall be tested in the name of the late chief justice of the district
in which the same shall issue, until the judges shall have
qualified under their respective appointments; and farther, to
discharge all and singular the other duties of clerks as here-
tofore.

All causes,
process, &c.
depending
before or

SEC. 23. And be it enacted, That all causes, pleas, process
and proceedings, civil or criminal, returnable or which shall be
returnable to, or depending before, the late county courts of this