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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and transcribe therein in a fair, plain and legible
hand all the docket entries contained in equity
docket No. 2, in the Circuit Court, with proper

Validity of
docket.

and suitable index or indexes to the same, and said
new docket when so finished and completed shall
be and is hereby declared to he substituted in the
place and the stead of said original equity docket
No. 2, and shall be as valid to all intents and pur-
poses as the said original equity docket No. 2.

Paid for.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the cost
of said books shall be paid by the County Com-
missioners for Washington county ; and that the
said Clerk shall be paid for preparing and making
said indexes out of the surplus proceeds of his
office; and if there be no such surplus proceeds
sufficient for such payment, then the balance or
the whole amount, in case there should be no sur-
plus at all, shall be paid by the County Commis-
sioners aforesaid, to be levied and collected as
other county charges now are.

In force.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act
shall take effect and be in full force from the date
of its passage.

Approved February 6, 1868.

CHAPTER 20.

AN ACT to amend and re-enact Section eight
hundred and five of Article four of the Code of
Public Local Laws, relating to the city of Bal-
timore, under sub-title Orphan's Court.

Repealed and
re-enacted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That Section eight hundred and five,
of Article four of the Code of Public Local Laws,
relating to the city of Baltimore, under sub-title,
Orphans' Court, be, and the same is hereby
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows :