1845.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 133.

within nine months after the appeal is taken, and upon
the receipt of such transcript or record by the clerk of
the Court of Appeals, he shall enter the case upon the
docket of his court as if the term next after the date of
said appeal.

To hear and
determine.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the Court of Appeals to hear and determine said ap-
peals at the first term of the Court of Appeals, after such
appeals are taken and transcript filed; provided, the re-
cord is filed in the said Court of Appeals within nine
months from the time of the appeal entered, or before
the sitting of the next Court of Appeals after said ap-
peal is entered.

Take effect.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the provisions of the
preceding sections shall take effect from the date of this
law, and shall apply to case or cases now depending in
the said Court of Appeals, as well as to those which may
hereafter arise.

CHAPTER 133.

Passed Feb.
21, 1846.

An act entitled, a further supplement to the act to regu-
late the fees of Notaries Public, passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and forty-one, chapter two
hundred and eighty.

Notaries Pub-
lic to give
bond.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That all Notaries Public who shall be here-
after appointed by the Executive, shall be required be-
fore they shall be commissioned or authorised to dis-
charge the duties of their office, to give a bond to the
State of Maryland, with security to be approved of by
the Governor, in the penalty of two thousand dollars,
conditioned for the payment into the treasury of that
portion of the notarial fees received by them for the use
of the State, and which under the supplemental act of
December session, eighteen hundred and forty-four,
chapter one hundred and ninety-six, they are required to
pay into the treasury.

Neglect or re-
fuse to bond.

SEC.. 2. And be it enacted, That if any person who
shall be hereafter appointed a notary public, shall neglect
or refuse to give the bond required by the preceding sec-
tion of this act, within thirty days from the date of his
appointment, it shall be the duty of the Governor to ap-
point some other person in his place.