116 VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS, NOVEMBER SESSION, 1807.

of the said office, that under the said contract the following records have been transcribed, viz. Liber L. L.
No. 4, containing records of laws from the year 1711 to 1733, and Liber E. J. No. 9, containing records of
deeds, &c. from the year 1740 to 1756; that the records of judgments and court proceedings from the year 1765
to 1779 have been completed so far as they could be done, owing to the loss of papers; that general alphabets
of records of judgments and court proceedings from the year 1658 to 1779, and of deeds, &c. from the year 1658
to 1806, have been made, but some of the said alphabets of deeds appear in some instances to be in the names of
the grantees only, others in the names of the grantors only, and none of them in the names of the lands, or of
the defendants in cases of judgments, except in some cases of common recoveries; that all the papers in the
office previous to the year 1779 have been separated, assorted and arranged, in proper bundles, in alphabetical
order.

It does not appear to the committee that any new alphabets have been made to any of the old records, nor that

any of the said records have been bound, but that there are a number of them which require new binding, others
are so obliterated as to want transcribing in part, and others are defective in not having been fully completed,
of which a particular description follows. Among the records which require new binding are the following:
Liber W. R. C. No. 1, containing records of deeds, &c. from the year 1676 to 1699; Liber T. L. No. 2, con-
taining the same from the year 1699 to 1707; Liber P. L. No. 3, containing the same from the year 1707 to
1709; Liber T. P. No. 4, containing the same from the year 1709 to 1719; Liber P. L. No. 5, containing the
same from the year 1719 to 1723; Liber P. L. No. 6, containing the same from the year 1724 to 1731; Liber
P. L. No. 8, containing the same from the year 1731 to 1737; Liber E. J. No. 3, containing the same from the

year 1737 to 1744; Liber B. T. No. 1, containing the same from the year 1756 to 1759; Liber B. T. No. 4,
containing the same from the year 1759 to 1762; Liber D. D. No. 2, containing the same from the year 1762
to 1763; Liber D. D. No. 4, containing the same from the year 1765 to 1770; Liber S containing records of
deeds, judgments and court proceedings, from the year 1658 to 1662; Liber B. B. containing the same from the
year 1663 to 1665; Liber F. F. containing the same from the year 1665 to 1669; Liber J. J. containing the
same from the year 1669 to 1672; Liber T. L. No. 2, containing records of judgments and court proceedings
in the year 1696; Liber H. W. No. 3, containing the same in the year 1697; Liber W. T. No. 3, containing
the same from the year 1699 to 1701; Liber W. T. No. 4, containing the same in the year 1702; Liber E. J.
No. 10, containing the same from the year 1745 to 1748, and a book containing commissions from the year 1726
to 1786. Among the records which require transcribing in part are the following: Liber T. L. No. 3, contain-
ing records of judgments and court proceedings from the year 1703 to 1705; Liber W. G. No. 1, containing
the same from the year 1719 to 1722, and among the records containing judgments and court proceedings which
have been recorded in part, omitting the judgments of the court in a number of cases, and which require to be
completed, are the following: Liber G. S. No. 1, containing records in the year. 1755; Liber B. T. No. 1,
containing records in the year 1756; Liber B. T. 2d. No. 1, containing records in the year 1756; Liber B. T.
No. 2, containing records in the year 1757; Liber B. T. No. S, containing records from the year 1757 to 1759;
Liber B. T. No. 5, containing records from the year 1759 to 1766; Liber. D. D. No. 2, containing records
from the year 1761 to 1762; Liber D. D. No. 3, containing records from the year 1762 to 1763; Liber D. D.
No. 5, containing records from the year 1762 to 1764; Liber D. D. No. 6, containing records in the year 1764,
and Liber D. D. No. 7, containing records from the year 1764 to 1765; that proper indexes are wanting to the
records containing the laws prior to the year 1785; that the papers during the clerkship of Thomas Brooke
Hodgkin, Esquire, from the year 1779 to 1788, are not in very good order; the land and law records are made
up, but the judgments and court proceedings from the year 1782 to 1788 are not recorded; that the records and
papers during the clerkship of John Gwinn, Esquire, from the year 1788 to 1806, are in good order; the land
and law records are made up, but the judgments and court proceedings for a part of each of the years from the
year 1790 to the abolition of the said court are not recorded; that of the records and papers of the late court
of appeals the latter, since the revolution, are in good order, but the former are only in part recorded.

Upon the foregoing state of facts the committee recommend the following resolution:

RESOLVED, That the governor and council be authorised and empowered to contract with the clerk of the
court of appeals for the western shore, to transcribe such of the records belonging to the office of the said court
as are defaced, to complete the said records from the year 1755 to 1765, where they have been in part recorded,
to complete the records which remain unfinished from the year 1765 to the appointment of Mr. Hodgkin, to
make the necessary alphabets where there are none, and new alphabets where they are not complete, or which
may be deemed necessary, to have all the said records well bound with good strong linen, and well secured in
cases, and also for the binding of the said records where necessary, and that the governor and council pay the
said clerk, and defray all expenses which may accrue in the work, by draughts on the treasury, to be paid out
of any monies unappropriated.

All which is submitted to the honourable house.

By order, G. WINCHESTER, clk.
Which was read.

Mr. Bruce, from the committee, delivers to the speaker a bill, entitled, An act to incorporate the convention
f the protestant episcopal church, in Maryland; which was read the first time and ordered to lie on the table.

The following resolution was read,