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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

by me as Commissioner, under the act entitled, an
act to provide for the completion of the restora-
tion of the records and papers destroy ed or injured
by fire in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Baltimore county, so help me God."

To keep an
accurate
record.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the said Com-
missioner shall keep an accurate and detailed
record of his proceedings, which record shall upon
the close of this commission, be certified by the said
Commissioner under his hand and seal, and be by
him delivered to the Clerk of the Circuit Court
for Baltimore county, to be by him kept and pre-
served as all other records in his office.

May issue
process to com-
pel attendance
of witnesses

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Commis-
sioners shall have and excercise all the powers
which are now possesed by the Judges of the Cir-
cuit Courts of the several counties of the State,
to issue and compel process for the attendance of
witnesses, as well as parties who appear upon the
records, papers, dockets and indexes, or other
instruments of writing to be intetested in proper-
ty lying in said county, or who may have been
connected with any deed, suit, bond, bill of sale,
mortgage or other instrument of writing, or cause
depending in said Circuit Court for Baltimore
.county, the record of which has been either or
wholly or partially destroyed by the fire which
occurred in the office of the Clerk of the said Cir-
cuit Court for Baltimore county, to serve such
process, for which service he shall be entitled to
receive the same fees as are now allowed by law
for like services, to be paid either by the parties
interested or by the county, as the said Commis-
sioner may prescribe.

Commissioner
to notify par-
ties interested.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That after the Com-
missioner shall have notified, by circular or other-
wise, all persons having original deeds or other
instruments of writing or papers which have been
recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of said county, as well as those who appear
in anywise connected with, the records, dockets,
papers, indexes or other instruments of writing,
or causes of action the record of which hasbeen
wholly or partiallv destroyed by fire, to file said
originals with the Clerk of the said Circuit Court
after having prescribed the time and place of the