14 BALTIMORE COUNTY. [ART. 3.

9. Every fine imposed according to the provisions of this
act, including costs, upon any person or persons, shall be re-
garded as a judgment in law, and it shall be the duty of the
said commissioner to collect each and every judgment entered
by him against any person or persons by execution or attach-
ment, or any other process authorized by the laws of this State,
for the collection and enforcement of judgments, and pay the
same over to the treasurer of the said county, who shall receipt
to the said commissioner, and it shall be the duty of the treasurer
of the said county, to place the sum or sums so authorized to be
paid to him, to the credit of the fund appropriated for the
restoration of the records, indexes, dockets, or other instruments
of writing, in the office of the said clerk of the Circuit Court for
Baltimore county.

10. In all cases where, in the judgment of the commissioner
appointed by this act, any record in the office of the clerk of
said county, shall have been so burnt or defaced, as to be wholly
destroyed by fire, and the indexes to such record, or the general
index may supply the titling to such record, he shall take and
accept such index as auxiliary evidence, and shall, if the original
papers or a certified copy thereof, properly evidenced as of
record, be produced, order and direct such original paper or
copy, as the case may be, to be recorded anew, and shall endorse
such order on said paper, and then record the same, which
endorsement and new record of such paper, shall be prima facie
evidence of the verity of the record so made, and available for
all purposes for which the original record, if it had not been
destroyed by fire, would have been available in evidence.

11. In all cases where any record or paper shall be wholly
destroyed by fire, and the original or certified copy thereof can-
not be procured, it shall be the duty of the commissioner, if the
said record be found indexed, to hear and receive such other
evidence, if any there be within the record office, either to be
derived from the remains of the burnt record or otherwise, and
such extrinsic evidence as the parties interested may supply,
and shall determine -and adjudge in the premises whether the
said record or paper be fully established, and if satisfied by such