404 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

363. All the provisions of sections 57-62 of Article 17 of the
Code of Public General Laws, title "Clerks of Courts," sub-
title "Clerks of the Circuit Courts," relating to the obtaining
of blank licenses, granting the same and returning an account
thereof to the Comptroller by the clerks of the circuit courts
for the counties, shall apply to the Clerk of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, and it shall be his duty to comply with such pro-
visions.

364. The Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City
is authorized and empowered to have fair and legible copies
made of such land record books in his custody of the classes
and description hereinafter named, as have become worn, mu-
tilated or illegible, that is to say, fifty-six volumes of the said
land record books, of a date prior to the year eighteen hundred;
five volumes of the series of land record books known as "W.
G." and eight volumes of the said land record books, of the
series known as "E. D."

365. A copy made in pursuance of the provisions of the
preceding section, and compared and certified under oath by
the said Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, to be a
true copy, shall have the same force and effect when deposited
among the said land records of said City, as if it were an origi-
nal record.

366. After the aforesaid copies shall have been duly made
as above provided, the original land record books so replaced
shall be removed to some place of safe keeping by the said
Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, and carefully
preserved, and only exhibited or allowed to be inspected upon
an order of court, or in the discretion of the said Clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore City.

Clerk of the Criminal Court of Baltimore.

367. The Clerk of the Criminal Court of Baltimore shall
give bond to the State of Maryland in the penalty of fourteen
thousand dollars, with sufficient security, to be approved by
the Judge of said court, and conditioned for the faithful per-
formance of all the duties now required, or which may here-