HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAPTER 419.

AN ACT authorizing the transcribing and con-
tinuing certain records of indexes in the
office of the Register of Wills for Frederick
county, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That the Register of
Wills for Frederick county, Maryland, be and
he is hereby required to transcribe as many of
the indexes of records in the office of the
Register of Wills for said county into a new

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book or books, well bound for that purpose, as
may be now worn out or rendered inefficient
from continued use, and also to remodel, com-
plete and annually continue the entire gen-
eral index of wills and administration and
guardian accounts; and that he also be and he
is required to fill and supply any vacancy
which may now exist in said general index,
and that he procure a good and substantial
book or books for that purpose.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if
the Judges of the Orphans' Court for said
county, in their discretion, at any time deem

Transcribe in-
dexes.

it necessary to transcribe any of the indexes
of records in the office of the Register of Wills
for said county into a new book or books, they
shall pass an order requiring the Register of
Wills for said county to transcribe such index
or indexes, which order, when passed, shall be
faithfully executed by the said Register of
Wills and made in a book or books well bound
for that purpose.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the costs of
said books shall be paid by the County Commis-
sioners for said county, and that said Register

Pass order.

of Wills shall be annually paid for transcrib-
ing such index or indexes, and for remodeling
and continuing said general index or indexes
out of the surplus proceeds of his offices, and if
there be no surplus then the said County Com-

How paid.