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as the case may be, shall be charged with the inventory or
inventories, sale or sales, by being debited with the amount
thereof respectively, as the particular circumstances of the case
may or doth require ; and the said executor, administrator or
collector, shall be answerable for the said goods, chattels or pro-
perty, according to the appraisement thereof, until the same shall
have been duly sold, or regularly distributed, according to law.
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Not to re-
ceive any
fee, &c. for
giving
advice.
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SEC. 9, And be it enacted, That no register of wills within
this state shall ask, demand, take or receive, from any person
whatever, any fee, gratuity, gift or reward, for giving his advice
or counsel in any matter or thing relative to his office, under
the penalty of one hundred dollars current money, for every
offence.
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Officers not
to record at
length pro-
ceedings,
&c.
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SEC. 10. And, for the purpose of preventing the unnecessary
accumulation of costs, and to diminish the expenses on judicial
proceedings, Be it enacted, That from and after the time pre-
scribed for the commencement of the operation of this act, the
respective clerk of the court of appeals for the western and
eastern shores, the register of the court of chancery, the clerks
of the several county courts in this state, and the clerk of Bal-
timore city court, shall not record at full length, or make up a
complete record of the proceedings in any action, suit or prose-
cution, civil, equitable or criminal, or of any verdict, judgment
or decree, thereafter to be had or rendered, in any of the said
courts, nor transcribe into record books the minutes and short
docket entries of any such action, suit, prosecution, verdict,
judgment or decree, wherein the proceedings were not required
to be so recorded and made up completely and at full length, as
heretofore prescribed and directed by law ; neither shall any of
the said officers charge or receive any fee or fees whatsoever
therefor, or any compensation for the performance of duties
which may have been heretofore created or required by any
law, but which, by the provisions and directions of this act
shall be annulled or discontinued, the particular cases specified
and described in the seventh section of an act of assembly, en-
titled, an act concerning the judgments and judicial proceed-
ings of the courts of justice in this state, and to provide for the
completion of the records in certain cases, passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and seventeen, chapter one hundred
and nineteen, excepted, unless some person or party interested
therein, shall, in writing, require the same to be so recorded or
transcribed, in which case the record or transcript shall be made
up at the proper cost and expense of the party so requiring the
same to be done ; but nevertheless, if any person or persons
shall require a complete exemplification, or an official copy at
full length, of such proceedings, verdict, judgment or decree,
it shall be lawful for any clerk or register to grant and certify
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