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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 757

CHAPTER 757.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the clerk of the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County to make and maintain a
general index of all causes appearing upon the equity
docket of said county, or which may hereafter be brought
in said Court, while sitting as a Court of Equity, and to
provide compensation for the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the clerk of the Circuit Court for Montgomery

General index
to be made.

county be and he is hereby directed to make, or cause to be
made, a general index of all causes appearing upon the
equity docket of said court, beginning with the earliest of
said docket, said general index to be made upon the same
plan, and in similar books, as now used in his office for
general indexes of the land records; in which index he shall
place the name of every party to each cause, and where the
suit is for the sale of lands of any person deceased or other-
wise, the name of said owner shall also appear in its proper
place in said general index; said clerk shall enter, in connec-
tion with the name of each person, the number or year of
the docket, and the number of the case thereon in which
such person is a party or in which his property is involved,
and where the papers in any cause have been recorded the
book and page of such record.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the County Commissioners
of said county be and they are hereby directed to levy for

Compensation.

any cause to be paid to said clerk a reasonable compensation
for the work hereby directed; said compensation to be fixed
by the sworn account of said clerk, approved by one or more
of the judges of said court.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That after the passage of this
Act said clerk, when and as each cause is brought, shall

Names of all
parties
entered in
Index.

enter in said general index the names of all parties to said
cause, and where the object of the suit is the sale of lands,
the name of the owner or claimant of said land, and when
and as the papers in any cause are recorded the book and
page of such record, for which he shall be entitled to charge
and receive such fees as are now charged for indexing in the
general indexes of the land records, which fees shall be taxed
as and become part of the costs of such cause, to be recovered
as other costs in such cases are or may be paid.