378 WASHINGTON COUNTY. [ART. 21.

CIRCUIT COURT.

1868, c. 5 repeals and re-enacts sections 54, 55, 56 and 57, [Sup. 629, ] so as to read

as follows:

1868, c 5. Regular law terms	54. There shall be three regular common law terms of the circuit court for Washington county, held at Hagerstown. The first of said terms to commence on the first Monday of March, the second on the fourth Monday of July, and the third on the second Monday of November in each year, to each of which aforesaid
Juries	terms juries shall be summoned and returned in the mode and manner prescribed by the Public General Laws of the state.
Regular chancery terms.	55. There shall be annually six regular equity or chancery terms of said circuit court, the first of which shall commence on the first Monday of February, the second on the first Monday of March, (that being also the commencement of the common law March term of said court, ) the third on the first Monday of June, the fourth on the fourth Monday of July, (that also being the commencement of the common law July term of said court, ) the fifth on the first Monday of October, and the sixth on the second Monday of November, (that being also the commencement of the common law November term of said court, ) and to which said equity
Equity process	or chancery terms of said court, all equity process shall be made returnable respectively, and the said circuit court, as a court of equity, shall be considered as always open for the transaction of business therein. ID force and approved January 22, 1868.

By the act of 1863, c. 19 the clerk of the circuit court for Washington county is
required to make a full and general alphabetical index, in a book or books, well
bound for the purpose, of all deeds, mortgages, bills of sale and other conveyances
of record in his office, which were recorded since the first day of January, in the
year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, which index shall be in the name of each
grantor, bargainer, donor or mortgagor, and each grantee, bargainee, donee or mort-
gagee, and shall refer to the book and page of the record of the several conveyances
as aforesaid.

That the said clerk is hereby required to procure one new equity docket, well
bound for the purpose, and transcribe therein in a fair, plain and legible hand all