LAWS OF MARYLAND—1743. 81
of the estates and interest of the good people of Maryland
depend on the faithful and due execution of the trust com-
mitted, and to be committed, to the respective officers and
clerks in the said several and respective offices, and that it
does not appear to this general assembly, that the penalty in
the bonds to be given by the several and respective officers and
clerks, by direction of the said act for repairing the damages
already sustained in the records of the land, secretary's, com-
missary's and county court offices, and for security of the same
records for the future, is equal to the trust reposed in them, or the
great share, and interest which the people of right have in the
same records, nor that the said bond is for the due execution of
the offices of the said respective officers and clerks, in relation to
the making true, lawful and faithful entries and records, accord-
ing to the intention of the same act, as appears, and on which
depends entirely the usefulness of the same records; |
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SEC. 2. Be it there/ore enacted, by the right honourable, the
Lord Proprietary, by and with the advice and consent of his lord-
ship's Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly,
and the authority of the same, That from and after the last day
of March, which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and forty-three, it shall not be lawful for the
secretary, register in chancery, commissary, register of the land
office, or other person who shall be appointed to receive the fees
of the same land-office, or the several and respective county
clerks, within this province, their deputies, officers or under
clerks, who shall have the keeping of the said secretary's,
chancery, commissary's, land or county court offices, committed
to them, to take upon themselves the keeping any of the said
records, or to receive or apply to their use any of the fees, pro-
fits or benefits, arising or to arise from their said several and
respective offices, until such secretary, register in chancery,
commissary-general, register in the land-office, or the person or
persons to whom the care and keeping of the said land-office is
or shall be committed, by what denomination soever he or they
may or shall be called, and the said several and respective
county clerks within this province, or such county clerks
as shall hereafter be appointed, whether for any counties now
being, or which shall hereafter be laid out, appointed or nomi-
nated, have entered into bond, with two good, able and suffi-
cient sureties, being persons of visible and landed estates
within this province, in the name of the lord proprietary; that
is to say, the secretary for the provincial office in the sum of
three thousand pounds current money; the same secretary,
register in chancery, or whoever receives the profit and benefit
of the fees accruing in the chancery-office, in the sum of one
thousand pounds current money; the commissary-general, for
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Officers to
enter into
bond; &c. |
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