LAWS OF MARYLAND.

1844

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That in all cases where a clerk of any county
court or of Howard District, or any register of wills of
this State has been, or may hereafter be appointed, said
clerk or register shall be authorised and required under the
direction of the several courts to complete the business of
his office of every description left unfinished by his prede-
cessors.

CHAP. 312.

Authorised to
complete un-
finished busi-
ness.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in all cases where busi-
ness has been left unfinished by the old clerks or registers
as aforesaid, which it was their duty to have completed,
that in all such cases, the newly appointed officers shall be
authorised to recover for completing the same, the fees
allowed by law for such business at the time of such neg-
lect by the old officers; said fees to be recovered from the
old officers or their legal representatives, in all cases where
they have been paid to said retiring officers by the parties
properly chargeable therewith; and in cases where such
fees have not been paid, then they may be recovered by
the newly appointed officers from the parties properly
chargeable therewith.

Authorised to
recover.

SEC. 3. Provided, and be it enacted, That nothing in
this act contained, shall have operation until six months
after the aforesaid several clerks and registers shall have
vacated their respective offices; and that during that pe-
riod, the retiring clerks and registers shall have a right to
all needful papers in order to enable them to complete and
finish their business, on receipting therefor, to their re-
spective successors.

Six months be-
fore operation.

CHAPTER 312.

An act relating to the fees of the Clerks and Registers of
Wills of the several Counties of the State, of Howard
District and of the City Court of Baltimore, and of the
Clerks of the Court of Appeals; whose term of service
expired by Constitutional limitation on the first of Fe-
bruary, eighteen hundred and forty five.

Passed March
10, 1845.

WHEREAS, the terms of service of clerks and registers
in office at the passage of the act entitled, an act provid-
ing for the appointment of clerks of the several county
clerks, of the Court of Appeals, and clerk of the court of
chancery, for the Eastern and Western Shores, the clerk
of Baltimore city court; and the registers of wills in the
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Preamble