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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

offence; and upon failure to pay such fine and costs

of prosecution shall be sentenced to imprisonment

in the county jail of the county in which the offence

has been committed for a period not exceeding ten

days, said fine to be paid one-half to the informer

Right of ap-

and the other half to the county commissioners for

peal.

the use of said county; provided, however, that any

person so convicted shall have the right of appeal

to the Circuit Court for the county.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 3, 1882.

Chapter 469.

AN ACT to repeal sections eighteen and nineteen

of article eighteen of the Code of Public Gen-

eral Laws, title " Clerks of Courts," and to re-

enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That sections eighteen and nineteen

Repealed and

of article eighteen of the Code of Public General

re-enacted,

Laws, title " Clerks of Courts," be and the same are

hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as

follows :

SECTION 18. The said clerk shall also, in well

Complete

bound books, make up and complete a record of the

record.

proceedings in every case where the title to real

estate has been decided by decree, judgment or

award, and in all cases where any lands or tene-

ments have been seized and sold under executions,

together with the several returns to such executions;

and the records of all such decrees, judgments,

Records— how

papers and proceedings shall be made up at full

made up.

length and in the manner before required within

the term of six months from the time when the

same shall be finally rendered, made and completed;

and where any sale of lands or tenements shall be

made under two or more writs of execution, it shall

be sufficient to make up the record only of the

elder of said judgments, with the execution, return