JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 699

dred and twenty, entitled " an act to revive, re-enact
and amend certain sections of the act of January
session, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, chapter three
hundred and sixteen, entitled ' an act to authorize	Revived,
the appointment of a commission to take testimony,	re enacted and extended.
to provide for the recording of copies of wills and
other papers, of which the originals were lost by the
burning of the court-house in Dorchester county,
and to remedy, as far as practicable, the evils likely
to ensue from the destruction of the recorSs of said
county,' " reviving and re-enacting said act, except
the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth,
ninth, fifteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first,
twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth sections thereof, be
and the same is hereby revived, re-enacted and ex-
tended to read as follows :
2. The judges of the orphans' court of said county
be and they are hereby authorized and empowered	Appoint com-
to appoint some suitable person a commissioner to	missioners
perform the duties prescribed by the aforesaid pro-
visions of said act herein re-enacted, and by the pro-
visions of this act ; and the said commissioner, before
he proceeds to act as such, shall take and subscribe,
before the clerk of the circuit court of said county,
the oath required by the Constitution of this State;	Take oath
and in case of the death, resignation, removal from
the county, or other disqualification of the said com-
missioner, the judges of the orphans' court aforesaid
shall till the vacancy ; and the said commissioner shall
receive such compensation, not exceeding twenty dol-
lars in each case, as the county commissioners of said
county shall allow, to be paid to him by the treasurer
of said county upon the order of said commis-
sioners.
3. The said commissioner shall, at the expense of
said county, provide himself with a suitable book,	Provide a suit-
and such stationery and blanks as may be required ;	able book
and in said book he shall keep a fair record of each
and every case brought before him, and of all the
papers, testimony and proceedings therein ; and upon
the completion of his duties as commissioner, shall
deposit said book in the office of the Register of
Wills of said county, to be kept as other record
books therein.