1826.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP, 247.	therefor, or any compensation for the performance of duties which may have been heretofore created or required -by any law, but which, by the provisions and directions of this act shall be annulled or discontinued, the particular cases specified and described in the seventh section of an act of assembly, en- titled, An act concerning the judgments and judicial proceed- ings of the courts of justice in this state, and to provide for the completion of the records in certain cases, passed at December session eighteen hundred and seventeen, chapter one hundred and nineteen, excepted, unless some person or party interested therein shall, in writing, require the same to be so recorded or transcribed, in which case the record or transcript shall be made up at the proper cost and expense of the party so requiring the same to be done; but nevertheless, if any person or persons shall require a complete exemplification, or an official copy at full length, of such proceedings, verdict, judgment or decree, it shall be lawful for any clerk or register to grant and certify the same; and the minutes of the court, the entries in the dock- ets, and the original papers and documents filed in such cause, Suit or prosecution, shall be sufficient vouchers and authorities to the clerk or register, as the case may be, for entering the style of the court by which, and the term and year in which, such proceedings, verdict, judgment or decree, was had or rendered, and for making up at full length a due and proper record there- of; and it is expressly declared, that the eighth, ninth, and tenth sections of the act, the title of which is above recited in this section, shall be and the same are hereby repealed, from and after the commencement of the operation of this act.
Repeal	11. And be it enacted. That all and every act or acts of as- sembly, and supplements thereto, which is or are inconsistent with, or repugnant to, the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
Passed Mar 12, 1827	CHAP. CCXLVIII. An Act to provide for the completion of the Records in the Office of the Register of Wills of Washing-ton County.
Levy authorised for the purpose	Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the levy court of Washington county be and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to levy upon the taxable pro- perty of said county, such sum or sums of money as may, in the discretion and judgment of the orphans court of that coun- ty, be considered a fair and just compensation to the register of wills thereof, for filing away, making , up and recording, such papers and documents in his office as remained unrecorded at the time of his appointment, and as are by law required to be
Proviso	placed on file and recorded; Provided nevertheless that no- thing herein contained shall be construed to relieve or invalidate any bond or securityship now existing and responsible for the official performance of the former incumbent, and that the levy court of Washington county, if they consider it expedient, shall cause suit to be brought upon such bond, or against the securi- ties in the same, and the amount recovered shall go to the county