402 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

county be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to
levy annually upon the assessable property of said county the
sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, to pay for said books.

52. The payment of appearance fees to attorneys-at-law
by the County Commissioners of Baltimore county, in what
are known as habeas corpus cases, arising in said county, is
forbidden.

53. The clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore county
shall keep a regular index of the names of all parties, grantors
and obligators, and grantees and obligees in all deeds, mort-
gages and bonds of conveyance relating to real or leasehold
estate that may be left in his office for record, and the names
of all such parties shall be duly entered in such index under
the proper letters of the alphabet on the day of the receipt
of such deeds, mortgages or bonds of conveyance.

54. He shall promptly and regularly index in the general
index of his office, bills of sale, mortgages of personal prop-
erty, and other conveyances, beside such as relate to land.

55. Each book of the general alphabetical index of the
records of his office shall embrace the period of at least ten
years for every letter to which such book may be appro-
priated.

56. Such index shall be under the supervision of the
judges of said court, and besides being both in the name of
each and all the grantors, and each and all of the grantees,
and exhibiting the page and record of the several conveyances,
shall give such designation of the land or property conveyed
as the conveyances may furnish.

57. The said clerk shall be entitled to charge and receive,
in addition to the amount chargeable for recording such con-
veyances or writing, twenty cents for the entry of each name
in said index.

58. It shall be the duty of said clerk to enter in a general
index all judgments obtained on the day on which said judg-
ments are rendered, for which service he shall be allowed the
same compensation as is now allowed for similar services, to
be paid for by the parties to the suit, respectively, as other
costs are now paid.

59. Said clerk shall destroy all poll books after they
shall have been in his custody for two years, excepting the
poll books of any district as to which a contest may be pending,