THOMAS H. HICKS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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all judgments and decrees, which have been en-
tered upon the records of his office, since the first
day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and
forty-five; and hereafter keep a general index to
the judgments and decrees of the said Circuit
Court, which general index shall be made and
kept in the names of the plaintiffs and defendants.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said
clerk be, and he is hereby entitled to receive from
Kent county, the costs of the aforesaid general
index books, and for transcribing and making the
aforesaid general indexes, the fees now allowed by
law to clerks for indexing, and that the County
Commissioners for said county, be and they are
hereby authorised and required to levy upon the
assessable property of said county, the amount of
said costs and fees, and that the same be paid to
the said clerk as other county charges.

Commission-
ers authorised
to levy.

SEC. 4. And be if. further enacted, That for in-
dexing, in the aforesaid general index, every
judgment or decree of the Circuit Court for Kent
county, entered or passed after the passage of this
act, that the clerk of said court shall be entitled
to charge in addition to the fees now allowed by
law, the sum of twenty-five cents, and that the
same be paid, by the defendant or defendants, in
such judgment or decree.

Compensation.

SEC 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from its passage.

CHAPTER 197.

In force.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to lay
out and establish a new Election District in
Carroll county, to be called District number
eleven, or New Windsor District, passed at Jan-
uary session eighteen hundred and fifty-six,
chapter two hundred and forty.

Passed March

5, 1858.

WHEREAS, by the said act, a new Election District
was established in Carroll county, conferring

Preamble.