EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1431

Garrett, Harford, Charles, Calvert, Kent, Baltimore, St.
Mary's, Dorchester, Prince George's, Carroll, Somerset, Wi-
comico, Frederick, Talbot, Worcester and Howard Counties.

CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT.

179. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Circuit Court
to enter in a general index, in the name of both plaintiff and
defendant, all judgments and decrees on the day on which
said judgments are rendered or decrees passed, and also to
enter the same when satisfied; for which services lie shall be
allowed the sum of fifty cents, to be paid by the parties to the
suit, respectively, as other costs are now paid.

180. It shall also be the duty of said clerk to make and

keep a general index of all deeds, conveyances and other papers

required to be recorded, upon the plan formulated by the com-

mittee appointed under the provisions of the Act of 1888,

Chapter 323.

181. The Clerk of the Circuit Court for Harford County
be and he is hereby empowered and directed to prepare, and
in substantial books, comprehensive indexes to all proceedings
in his office affecting titles to land by way of Commissioners
under various Acts of Assembly, and by way of condemnations
or writs of inquisition, and by way of sales of land under
writs of execution or otherwise, and to record in substantial
books all proceedings of his office, whether at law or. in chan-
cery, affecting titles to land and proper to be recorded, but
which have not heretofore been recorded by former clerks whose
duty it was to record the same.

182. The County Commissioners of Harford County be and
they are hereby empowered and directed as soon as said indexes
and records have been completed and the approval thereof cer-
tified to them by one of the judges of the Circuit Court for Har-
ford County, to pay to said Clerk the cost thereof, according
to the rates fixed by law or heretofore paid for similar work
performed by said clerk.

183. The Clerk of the Circuit Court for Harford County
be and he is hereby empowered and directed to equip his office
with such furniture and metallic and other fixtures as he may
determine are necessary and requisite for the prompt and safe
dispatch of the business and protection of the records of his
office, and the proper and easy accommodation of the public,
and to procure from the land office of Maryland copies of all
original papers and proceedings in the high court of chancery