ART. 3. ] BALTIMORE COUNTY. 17

ORPHANS' COURT.

The Act of 1862, ch. 118 repeals sections 139, 140, 141, and substitutes the following:

6. The judges of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore county shall
meet on the first Tuesday of every month at ten o'clock, and
shall not adjourn before three o'clock, 'and at each term the said
judges may adjourn from day to day, if the public business re-
quire it, for a period not exceeding four days at any one term,
and to which terms all process shall be made returnable.

RECORDS BURNT.

The Act of 1862, ch. 281, provides, as follows:

7. James L. Ridgely, James J. Given and Joseph J. Stewart
are hereby appointed commissioners of records, for the purpose
of restoring and re-establishing such of the records and indexes,
and papers and dockets, in the office of the clerk of the Circuit
Court for Baltimore county, as have been either wholly or par-
tially destroyed by fire; each of whom, before he enters upon
the duties required and authorized by this act, shall take and
subscribe the following oath or affirmation, before some judge of
a court of record in said county, which oath or affirmation certi-
fied by the said judge, shall be recorded among the proceedings
of the said commission: " I ————————, do make oath upon
the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, (or affirm, as the case may
be, ) that I will well and truly execute and perform the duties
prescribed and required to be performed by me as a commis-
sioner, under the act entitled, an act to provide for the restora-
tion of the records and papers destroyed or injured by fire, in
the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore county,
so help me God. "

8. The said commissioners, shall have power to appoint a
clerk, who shall, under their direction, keep an accurate and
detailed record of their proceedings, which record shall upon the
close of the commission, be certified by the said commissioners,
under their hands and seals, and be by them delivered to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore county, to be by him