A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

ers, donors or mortgagers, and all the grantees,
bargainees, donees or mortgagees, and shall refer
to the book and page of the record of the several
conveyances, designating the same and the date
of the record; and said index shall be kept in the
manner and form now used in said office.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said
Clerk and his successors in office be, and he or
they are hereby authorized and required to pro-
cure a book or books, well bound, at the com-
mencement of their respective terms, for the pur-
pose of continuing the said index during their
term of office, in the same manner prescribed in
the preceding section.

To procure
book.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the cost
of said books used for said index shall be paid by
the County Commissioners for said county; and
that said Clerk) and his successors, in office, shall
be paid for making said records out of the sur-
plus proceeds of their office; and if there be no
surplus, then the County Commissioners shall al-
low him or them such compensation as the said
Commissioners shall think just and fair, to be
levied and collected as other county charges now
are; that the said Clerks shall in no event have
more than the sum now allowed them by the
Constitution and laws of this State; and should
the compensation allowed them by the County
Commissioners cause a surplus in the fees of their
said office, that then they shall pay over said ex-
cess or surplus to the said County Commissioners
to the extent of said allowance; and the said
Clerks are hereby required to make an annual re-
port of the receipts and expenses of their said
office to the said County Commissioners, until the
amount so expended by them shall be returned.

Expenses —
how paid.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act
shall take effect from the day of its passage.

In force.