16 BALTIMORE COUNTY. [ART. 3.

13. In all cases wherein process may be issued to summons
parties before the said commissioner, which shall be returned
non estt no final order shall be passed in the premises until pub-
lic notice shall have been first given in some newspaper pub-
lished in said county once a week for at least three weeks, and
no order shall be passed upon any record or paper alleged to
have been 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
commissioner, and any party to any issue or examination had
before said commissioner, shall have the right at any time within
thirty days to appeal from any order passed by him to the cir-
cuit judge for said county, and the said commissioner shall be
and he is hereby required to carry into effect the order of the
said judge in the premises.

14. When any docket shall have been wholly or partially de-
stroyed by fire, the said commissioner shall cause the same to be
made up anew from the trial papers, auxiliary dockets, or any
evidence in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for said
county, which may be accessible from the burnt remains of any
docket or papers, or otherwise, and when such dockets shall
have been made up the commissioner shall certify the same
under his hand and seal to the judge of the Circuit Court, and
it shall be the duty of the said judge to examine such renewed
docket or dockets as the case may be, and if found correct, to
adopt the same as the docket of the court, and the said judge
shall signify such adoption by a certificate in writing upon each
of such dockets, and such renewed dockets shall be as valid and
effectual in law as the original dockets would have been had
they not been destroyed or in any way injured by fire.

15. When any cause of action or trial paper in any case,
whether pending or settled, at law or in equity, may have been
wholly or partially destroyed by fire, the said commissioner is
hereby authorized to cause the same to be restored or re-estab-
lished by consent of parties, if so proposed, or by such evidence
as may be supplied from the remains of burnt papers or dockets
or other papers in the office, and if such evidence shall be suffi-