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provide one or more substantial and well bound book or books,
and therein, immediately after every term, to enter and tran-
scribe) in a fair and correct manner, and according to the true
intent and meaning of each proceeding, the minutes of the
court, and the docket entries of all and every action, prosecu-
tion, suit and execution, civil, criminal and equitable, which
shall have ended during the said term by trial, judgment,
decree, submission, agreement, non pros, discontinuance, satis-
faction, or otherwise however; and such transcripts shall con-
tain the style or names of the parties, the nature of the case,
and other memoranda, as they do or should appear upon the
dockets, and the judgment, decree, order or agreement, by
which the several actions, prosecutions or suits, were termi-
nated; and the bills of costs, recoverable by the party in whose
favour they shall have been awarded, shall be likewise tran-
scribed and entered ; and all the said books shall be truly and
regularly paged and alphabetted, and the whole shall be com-
pleted before the ensuing term ; and the said chancellor and
judges of the respective courts of justice, or any one or more of
them, at each succeeding term, shall require the said clerk or
register to produce the said book, and shall inspect and examine
the entries therein transcribed, and the manner in which the
services are performed, and decide whether the duties hereby
required have been faithfully discharged; and if any clerk or
register shall neglect or refuse to provide the said book, or to
make the transcripts hereby required in the manner herein pre-
scribed, he shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hun-
dred dollars for every offence, to be recovered by indictment and
conviction aforesaid; and such conviction shall be deemed and
taken as evidence of misbehaviour in office, for which he may
be removed.
SEC. 10. Regulated by 1826, ch. 247, sec. 4.
CHAPTER 137.
AN ACT relating to British Property liable to Confiscation.
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Property
may be
taken up by
common
warrant,
&c.
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SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General* of Maryland, That all
real estate which was liable to confiscation by the laws of this
state, and which was not actually sold by the commissioners of
confiscated property, or intendents of revenue, (except only the
reserves westward of Fort Cumberland and the reserves in the
cities of Annapolis and Baltimore,) shall be liable to be taken
up by a common warrant, special warrant, or warrant of resur-
vey, in the same manner, and on the same terms, as any vacant
lands in this state may be taken up.
* The word Assembly omitted in the engrossed law and record.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons
shall have heretofore and since the session of the general as-
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