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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

small debts; provided, nevertheless, upon the trial

before any justice of the peace for damages, at the

instance of either party, it shall be the duty of said

justice of the peace, to issue a subpoena for such

witnesses, as either plaintiff or defendant may re-

quire.

Joint fences

2. Wherever joint fences Lave been, or may be
established in said county, for the mutual benefit and

advantage of different owners or possessors of adjoin-

ing land, it shall be the duty of each party to keep

up in good repairs, his, her, or their just and respec-

tive proportion thereof, in manner following: that

is to say, that all fences of whatever kind, shall be

at least four feet high, the height in every case to be

computed from the ground, or base of any embank-

ment upon which said fence is, or may be placed.

Approved, March 16th, 1874.

CHAPTER 66.

AN ACT to authorize the transfer of certain land

records, and extracts of deeds from the office of

the Clerk of the Court of Appeals, to the office of

the Commissioner of the Land Office; to repeal sec-

tion forty of article eighteen of the code of Public

General Laws, and to repeal section fifty-five of

the same article, and to enact a substitute therefor.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Authorized to
remove record

Maryland, That the Clerk of the Court of Appeals is

hereby authorized and directed to cause all books

containing deeds and transfers of soldiers lots, and

all other land record books and papers, including

extracts of deeds now in his office, to be removed and

transferred to the office of the Commissioner of the

Land Office.

Authorized to

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Commissioner of

receive records

the Land Office shall receive and have custody of

the books and extracts aforesaid, and of all the other

extracts of deeds which shall be hereafter received

by him, and shall give certified copies of such deeds