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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Passed Mar.
10, 1856.

SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That the clerk of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas of Baltimore City, the clerk of the Supe-
rior Court of Baltimore City, and the Register of
Wills of Baltimore City, shall respectively within
thirty days after the passage of this act file with the
Comptroller a bond with sufficient securities in the
same penalty and with like condition as prescribed by
the act passed at January session, eighteen hundred
and fifty-three, chapter four hundred and nine, of
which this act is a supplement, the sufficiency of
which sureties to be certified as directed by said act ;

Proviso.

Provided, however, that this section shall not apply
to such clerk, or to the Register of Wills who may
have given his official bond within a period of two
years past, and had the same filed and approved
within the said time.

Deputy or as-
sistant not to
become a sure-
ty on official
bond.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be law-
ful for any deputy or assistant in the employ of said
officers to become a surety on the official bond of
such Clerk or Register by whom such deputy or as-
sistant is employed.

New bond to
be given.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas, and of the Superior Court
and the Register of Wills of Baltimore City, and
every clerk of said courts, and every Register of Wills
of said city, hereafter elected or appointed, shall, at
the end of every two years, and at or before the ex-
piration of every second year after having given a
bond as such Clerks or Registers as prescribed by the
act of which this is a supplement, and within thirty
days thereafter, enter into a new bond in the same
penalty and with securities to be certified and appro-
ved as in this act prescibed.

Bond to be
approved.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That when the bond
of such Clerk or Register of Wills is inspected by
the Judge or Judges of their respective courts, and
is deemed good and sufficient, and is so certified,
then the bond of such Clerk or Register of Wills
shall forthwith be entered among the proceedings
of the respective courts of such Clerk, or Register
of Wills, and sent to the Comptroller for his ap-
proval, and when said bond shall be approved by
the Comptroller, it shall be the duty of the Comp-
troller to forthwith make a certificate of the fact of
such approval, and such certificate shall by him be
sent to the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas,
the Judge of the Superior Court, or the Judges of the