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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Required to

for Harford county be and he is hereby authorized

make out
general in-
dexes

and required to make out, in a fair and legible
handwriting, general indexes, in the names of both

plaintiff or complainant and defendant, to the law

and equity dockets in his office from the beginning

of said dockets to the passage of this act, and shall

Compensa-

be allowed therefor the same compensation as .is

tion.

now allowed by law for making general indexes to

land records of the county, in addition to all costs

Cost for in-
dex record

for index record books, to be furnished by said clerk,

books.

and to be paid for by the County Commissioners for

Harford county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the County Com-

County Com-
missioners di-

missioners of Harford county be and they are hereby
directed to pay to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for

rected to pay.

Harford county whatever sum or sums of money

may be found to be due him under the preceding

section.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That from and after

Duty of clerk.

the passage of this act it shall be the duty of said

clerk to enter in said index, in the name of both

plaintiff or complainant and defendant, all judg-

ments and decrees thereafter obtained on the day on

which said judgments are rendered or decree passed,

and also to enter the same when satisfied, for which

Shall be al-

services he shall be allowed the sum of fifty cents,

lowed.

to be paid for by the parties to the suit respectively

as other costs are now paid.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That this act shall take

In force.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 20, 1878.