ARTS. 17-18. ] CHEMIST—CLERKS OF COURTS. 23

SALES.

The Act of 1862, ch. 156, adds the following:

2. In all cases where one or more persons is or are entitled to
an estate for life or years in land, and other persons are entitled
to a remainder or remainders, vested or contingent, or an execu-
tory devise or devises, or any other interest, vested or contin-
gent, in the same land, on application of any of the parties in
interest, a Court of Equity may, if all the parties in being are
parties to the proceeding, decree a sale or lease thereof, if it
shall appear to be advantageous to the parties concerned, and
shall direct the investment of the proceeds of sale, or the limita-
tion of the leasehold interest, as the case may be, so as to enure
to the use of the same parties, who would be entitled to the land
sold or leased, and all such decrees, if all the persons are parties
who would be entitled if the contingency had happened at the
date of the decree, shall bind all persons, whether in being or
not, who claim any interest in said land under any of the par-
ties to said decree, or under any person from whom any of the
parties to such decree claim; this to apply to leasehold as well
as freehold estates.

ARTICLE XVII.

Chemist-Agricultural.

The Act of 1862, eh, 73, repeals all of this Article.

ARTICLE XVIII.
Clerks of Courts.

The Act of 1862, ch. 255, amends sections 9, 10, of this Article, as follows:

SEC. 1. Every clerk, except the clerk of the Court of Appeals,
the emoluments of whose office shall exceed the sum of two
thousand five hundred dollars in any one year, after deducting