18 BALTIMORE COUNT Y. [ART. 3.

kept and preserved as all other records in his office, and the said
clerk, hereby authorized to be appointed, shall perform generally
such other duties connected with the business of said commis-
sion, as the said commissioners may from time to time prescribe,
and before he enters upon the duties of his office, shall take and
subscribe an oath or affirmation, well and truly to perform the
duties of. his office, which oath or affirmation may be adminis-
tered by any one of the said commissioners, and certified by
him, and recorded in the proceedings of the said commission.

9. Said commissioners shall have and exercise all the powers
which are now possessed by the judges of the Circuit Courts of
the several counties of the State, to issue and compel process, for
the attendance of witnesses, and it shall be the duty of the sher-
iff of said county to serve such process, for which service, he
shall be entitled to receive the same fees as are now allowed by
law for like services, to be paid either by the parties interested
or by the county, as the said commissioners may prescribe.

10. The said commissioners, shall cause public notice to be
given in each of the newspapers published in Baltimore county,
at least once a week for four weeks, and in one or more of the
daily newspapers published in the city of Baltimore, at least
once a week for four weeks, of their appointment, accompanied
with such an abstract of the powers conferred upon them by this
act, as shall fully inform the public of the object of such ap-
pointment; such notice shall particularly request and notify all
persons, having original deeds or other instruments of writing
or papers, which have been recorded in the office of the Clerk of
the Circuit Court of said county, the record of which has been
wholly or partially destroyed by fire, to file the said originals
with the clerk of the said Circuit Court, and shall also prescribe
the time and place of sitting of the said commission, which shall
be at the court house in said county.

11. In all cases, where in the judgment of the commissioners
appointed by this act, any record in the office of the clerk of the
Circuit Court for said county, shall have been so burnt or defaced
as to be wholly destroyed by fire, and the index to such record,