LAWS OF MARYLAND-1826.

903

Cents.

complete record thereof may not have been already made

tip, or authorized, as provided for by this act, (but hi no

other case whatever,) to be charged to those for whose

use or benefit such services may be performed, or to

those requiring the same to be done ; for every ten words

or figures written, and so pro rata, 1 1/4

For recording or copying all plots made by surveyors,

which may be filed in office, when so required either by

law, or an individual, the same fees as are by law limited

and allowed to surveyors for the performance of like or

similar services.

For recording or transcribing any other matter or thing

required by law, or the parties, to be recorded or tran-

scribed, not herein before particularly enumerated, and

for which no other allowance hath already been specifi-

cally made, for every ten words or figures written, and

so pro rata, 1

For alphabeting every instrument, proceeding, paper, or

other matter, recorded in the office, and endorsing or

entering thereon a certificate referring to the record, for

every ten words and figures necessarily written for that

purpose, and so pro rata, 1 1/4

But this provision shall not be so construed as to extend

to any alphabets or indices made to the dockets of actions,

suits or prosecutions.

For all other services, matters or things, not herein before

particularly enumerated, and for which no specific allow-

ance may have been already provided, the same fees as

are herein after prescribed and allowed to the clerics of

the several county courts of this state, for the like or

similar services, and no more.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That from and after the com-

To the

mencement of the operation of this act, there shall be limited

clerks of
county

and allowed to the clerk of each county court in this state, and

courts, and

to the clerk of Baltimore city court, for services thereafter ren-

Baltimore
city court

dered in virtue of their respective offices, instead of the fees

heretofore rated and established by law, the following fees,

agreeably to the particular arrangement and classification there-

of, and no more ; that is to say,

I. In prosecutions either at Law or in Equity, usually de-

nominated 'Civil Cases.'

Cents.

For filing every declaration, pleading, order, or other paper,

matter or thing, necessary or required to be filed in his

office, (to be charged but once,) for each, 5

For the docket entry of every personal appearance of each

individual party, whether plaintiff or defendant, appellant