ART. 3. ] BALTIMORE COUNTY. 13

Courts of the several counties of the State, to issue and compel
process for the attendance of witnesses, as well as parties who
appear upon the records, papers, dockets and indexes, or other
instruments of writing to be interested in property lying in said
county, or who may have been connected with any deed, suit,
bond, bill of sale, mortgage or other instrument of writing, or
cause depending in said Circuit Court for Baltimore county, the
record of which has been either wholly or partially destroyed
by the fire, which occurred in the office of the clerk of the said
Circuit Court for Baltimore 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 commissioner
may prescribe.

8. After the commissioner shall have notified, by circular or
otherwise, 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, as well as those
who appear in anywise connected with the records, dockets,
papers, indexes, or other instruments of writing or causes of
action, the record of which has been wholly or partially destroyed
by fire, to file said originals with the clerk of the said Circuit
Court after having prescribed the time and place of the sitting
of the commissioner, which shall be at the court house, in said
Baltimore county, and after having issued summons to those
interested in any manner according to the records, dockets,
papers, indexes, or other instruments of writing, in the office of
the said clerk, when the summons process issued to the sheriff
of said county shall be by him returned summoned, and the
party so returned summoned shall fail to appear or give such
excuse for his failure to appear, as shall seem reasonable in the
discretion of the said commissioner, that then the said commis-
sioner is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to impose
a fine upon each and every person notified and summoned, from
five to fifty dollars, in the discretion of the commissioner, in-
cluding all costs.