364 KEEPER OF CHANCERY KECORDS. [ART. 52. !

ARTICLE LII.
Keeper of Chancery Records.

SEC. 1. A Keeper of the Records of the Court of Chancery
shall, at each regular session of the General Assembly, be ap-
pointed by the two houses by joint ballot, who shall hold his
office for two years from the eleventh day of March next suc-
ceeding his election, and until his successor shall be elected and
qualified.

2. If a vacancy occur in said office during the recess of the
General Assembly, the Governor shall fill such vacancy.

3. All the records and papers belonging to the late Court of
Chancery, and not transmitted to the courts of equity, as re-
quired by the Constitution, shall be in the custody and safe
keeping of the said keeper, whose duty it shall be to record and
otherwise complete the proceedings of the said court.

4. The said keeper shall have a seal of office, and may certify
copies and proceedings of the said court in his possession, and
where such certificates are required to be under seal, he shall
affix his seal of office, and he shall be entitled to the same fees
and compensation for such services as the clerks of the Circuit
Courts are entitled to for similar services.

5. He shall, without unnecessary delay, transmit to the Circuit
Courts for the several counties, and the Superior Court and Cir-
cuit Court for Baltimore city, all the cases and proceedings in
the said court undisposed of and unfinished, at the expense of
the State, whether applied for by the counsel of the parties or
the parties themselves, or not.

6. He shall report to the General Assembly, at each regular
session thereof, a full and correct account of all the duties per-
formed by him as herein required, together with all fees and
compensation he may receive, and an accurate list of all cases
still remaining in his possession.