20 BALTIMORE COUNT Y. [ART. 3.

which was designed and intended to be vested by the original
paper or instrument of writing, and record thereof, as fully and
effectually as if the record had not been destroyed by fire.

13. In all cases where the records have been only partially
destroyed or injured by fire so that they may be restored by
their own intrinsic evidence, or by the aid of other evidence
accessible to the said commissioners, it shall be the duty of the
said commissioners to cause the said records to be restored to
their original condition, and to be recorded anew by the clerk of
the Circuit Court for said county, accompanied by a certificate
' to that effect, and for the purpose of preserving the said Records
as continuously together as they were before burnt, the said com-
missioners are hereby authorized, if they see fit, to cause the
binding of any of the record books to be renewed so that the
folios may be separated, the burnt portions detached, and the
new record thereof and correspondent thereto, be substituted in
the place of said burnt part, and to have the said record book,
thus restored to its original condition, rebound, and a certificate
to that effect recorded therein.

14. In all cases wherein process may be issued to summon
parties before the commissioners which shall be returned non
est, no final order shall be passed in the premises until public
notice shall have been first given in some one of the newspapers
published in said county, once a week, for at least three weeks,
and no order shall be passed upon any record or paper alleged
to be destroyed or injured by fire which shall in anywise have
the effect to impair or interfere with the rights of third parties
not appearing to or contesting any issue before the said commis-
sioners, and any party to any issue or examination had before
said commissioners, shall have the right, at any time within
thirty days, of appeal from any order passed by them to the Cir-
cuit judge for said county, and the said commissioners shall be
and they are hereby required to carry into effect the order of
the said judge in the premises.

15. When any docket shall have been wholly or partially
destroyed by fire, the said commissioners shall cause the same to