1846.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 254

tion of all the circumstances, and such testimony as the
court may require, and upon its appearing that it will be
for the interest and advantage of the said Matilda and
her children, to sell their said real estate, or any part
thereof, or to let the same upon building or improvement
leases, reserving ground rents to the parties entitled, the
said court may order and direct the said real estate, or
any part thereof, to be sold or leased upon such terms as
the said court shall direct, the said court taking care that
the money arising from such sales, shall be well and suf-
ficiently secured for the benefit of the persons entitled;
it shall nevertheless be lawful for the said court to direct
the sale of a part of the said real estate and to apply the
proceeds thereof to the improvement of the residue by
building thereon, or otherwise.

CHAPTER 254.

Passed Feb.
24, 1846.

Officer to keep
book and trans-
cribe every
action and suit
civil, &c.

An act relating to the Judgments and Judicial Proceed-
ings of the Courts of Justice in this State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act,
it shall be the duty of each and every officer being the
clerk or register of any court of justice within this State,
and they are hereby directed and required forthwith to
provide one or more well bound book or books, and
therein immediately after each and every term of the said
courts respectively, to enter and transcribe therein, in a
fair and correct manner, the docket entries of each and
every action and suit, civil and equitable, which shall
have been ended during the said term by trial, judgment,
decree, agreement, non pross or abatement, and such
transcript shall contain the style or names of the parties,
the nature of the case, the docket entries, and if super-

Names of su-
perseders.

seded, the name or names of the supersedes, and other
memoranda, as they do or should appear upon the dock-
ets, and the judgment, decree, order or agreement, by
which the several actions or suits were terminated; and
the bills of cost recoverable by the party in whose favor
they shall have been awarded, shall be likewise tran-
scribed and entered, and the said books shall be truly
and regularly paged and alphabeted, and the whole com-
pleted before the ensuing term of the said courts respec-