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the docket entries contained in equity docket No. 2, in the circuit court, with proper
and suitable index or indexes to the same, and said new docket when so finished
and completed shall be and is hereby declared to be substituted in the place and
the stead of said original equity docket No. 2, and shall be as valid to all intents and
purposes as the said original equity docket No. 2.

That the cost of said books shall be paid by the county commissioners for Wash-
ington county; and that the said clerk shall be paid for preparing and making said
indexes out of the surplus proceeds of his office, and if there be no such surplus pro-
ceeds sufficient for such payment, then the balance or the whole amount, in case
there should be no surplus at all, shall be paid by the county commissioners afore-
said, to be levied and collected as other county charges now are.

CLEARSPRING.

1868, c. 76 repeals and re-enacts sections 75 and 76 to read as follows

75. He shall see that all ordinances of the corporations are faithfully executed, and shall, in virtue of his office, have and exercise within the said town all the jurisdic- tion and powers of a justice of the peace, and in all cases of judgment for misdemeanor and refusal to obey the ordinances of said corporations, which may have the approval of a majority of the commissioners, shall have power to imprison for such periods of time, and in such manner as the burgess and commissioners by ordinance may direct, and shall report annually to the commissioners, during the first two days of their ses- sion, the general condition of the town, with an accu- rate account of money received and expended, to be published for the information of the citizens.

1808, c 76 Powers of bur- gess

76. No fines or forfeitures, imposed under any ordi- nance of said town, shall exceed the sum of twenty dollars for any offence, and all such fines and forfeit- ures shall be recoverable before the burgess, for the use of the corporations, as small debts arc collected by a justice of the peace. In force and approved February 26, 1868.

Fines and for- feiture a.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

By the act of 1868, c. 68 the county commissioners of Washington county fire
hereby empowered to purchase the original records, field notes and books of the
different surveys of Washington county, which may have been made by its several