RECOGNIZANCES
 
 

RECORDS

—To take recognizance with security from free
negroes, for their good behaviour,
    Recognizance may be taken on discharging a person
from imprisonment on habeas corpus,

    The bonds of inspectors of tobacco to be recorded,

    All laws thereafter passed to be recorded in the office
of the court of appeals of the western shore,

    Locations of reserved lands as made by commissioners,
to be recorded in Allegany county court,
    Oaths of the judges, how to be recorded,
    Provisions concerning the records of the late general
court, &c.

    Commissions to civil officers to be recorded by the
clerk of the council,
    Want of form of the record not a ground for reversing
judgments in actions transmitted as therein mentioned,
—The county clerks directed to make up the whole
proceedings on judgments so transferred,
    Punishment for embezzling records, &c. confinement
in the penitentiary not less than 3 nor more than
7 years,
    The final discharges of administrators, executors
and guardians, to be recorded, &c.
    Provision made that deeds for lands, lying partly in
one county, and partly in another, having been duly
recorded in one, should have the same effect as if recorded
in both,
    Commissions to justices of the peace to be entered
among the county records,
—Their qualification to be recorded,
    Bonds taken under the act to direct descents to be
recorded, &c.
    On the death of any county clerk, leaving in his office
any deed, &c. not recorded in the record books, it
shall be the duty of the clerk for the time being to record
the same, as of the day they shall appear by endorsement
to have been received for recording,
—The clerk so recording shall affix the name of
the clerk who received the same, and his own, and
the deed, &c. so recorded, shall be of the same force
and effect as if duly recorded on the day they were received,
—The clerk so recording to have the same fees as
for similar services, and not bound to record the deed,
&c. till his fees are secured,

—Fees therefor, having been paid to the deceased
clerk, may be recovered (as small debts,) from his
executors,
    Provisions for recording final discharges to trustees,
&c.
    Bills of sale of servants or slaves, acknowledged as
therein directed, to be recorded within 29 days,
 

    In cases of judgments, &c. in the late provincial or
general courts, remaining unrecorded, the clerks of
the court of appeals may certify copies of a record
thereof as if such judgment, &c. had been recorded,
—The minutes, dockets, papers, &c. to be sufficient
vouchers for making proper records,
—Similar provisions as to the court of chancery
and the register thereof,

  1806       81    3

  1809      125    2

  1801        63    7
  1804        55
Confirmed by
  1805        16
 

  1804        67    3
  1805        65    3

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  1806        41    2

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  1809      138    8

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  1813      104    4

  1814        82    2
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  1815      205
 
 

  1816      119    1
 

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  1817      112    3
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