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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

as required by law, and if it should appear on such examina-

tion that any of the records or indexes have become so de-

lapidated and worn as to require them to be transcribed, they

shall order and direct the clerk to transcribe the same into

new record or index books, which the clerk shall procure for

that purpose; and such new records and indexes, when so

transcribed, shall be carefully examined and certified by said

clerk, and when so examined and certified shall be substituted

for and become the records and indexes of said court in lieu

of the wornout records and indexes, and the County Commis-

sioners for Montgomery County shall annually levy by esti-

Levy to be
made to pay

mate in advance a sum of money sufficient to provide a fair

clerk hire.

compensation for the labor of the clerk in making such new rec-

ords and indexes ; and shall pay to said clerk at the end of each

calendar month such sum of money as may be found due

to the said clerk for services rendered under the provisions

of this section.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 15, 1904.

CHAPTER 72.

AN ACT to legalize the Code of Public General Laws of

Maryland, containing the Articles and Sections of the pres-

ent Code, and subsequent Public General Laws now in

force, as codified by John Prentiss Poc. and to make the

same evidence in the courts of the State, and before all the

justices of the peace of the State, and all public officials of

the State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

The Code of
Public Gen-

land, That the Code of Public General Laws of the State of

eral Laws le-

Maryland, containing the Articles and sections of the present

galized by
enactment

Code, and the subsequent Public General Laws now in force,

codified by John Prentiss Poe, be and the same is hereby

legalized and shall be deemed and taken in all the courts of

the State, and by all justices of the peace of the State, and

by all public officials of the State, to be evidence of the Pub-

lic General Laws of the State, contained in the present Code

and the Public General Laws enacted subsequent thereto ;

provided, that before the same be published the Public Gen-

eral Laws enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland at

its Session of 1904, be incorporated therein.