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al, judgment, decree, submission, agreement, non pros, disconti-
nuance, satisfaction, or otherwise howsoever; and such transcripts
shall contain the style or names of the parties, the nature of the
case, and other memoranda, as they do or should appear upon the
dockets, and the judgment, decree, order or agreement, by which
the several actions, prosecutions or suits, were terminated; and the
bills of costs, recoverable by the party in whose favour they shall
have been awarded, shall be likewise transcribed and entered; and
all the said books shall be truly and regularly paged and alphabeted,
and the whole shall be completed before the ensuing term; and the
said chancellor and judges of the respective courts of justice, or any
one or more of them, at each succeeding term, shall require the
said clerk or register to produce the said book, and shall inspect and
examine the entries therein transcribed, and the manner in which
the services are performed, and decide whether the duties hereby
required have been faithfully discharged; and if any clerk or regis-
ter shall neglect or refuse to provide the said book, or to make the
transcripts hereby required in the manner herein prescribed, he
shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for
every offence, to be recovered by indictment and conviction as
aforesaid; and such conviction shall be deemed and taken as evi-
dence of misbehaviour in office, for which he may be removed.
10. And be it enacted, That as a better compensation to the said
clerks and register for the books they are obliged to procure, and
for making on their records fair entries of their proceedings, they
shall respectively be entitled to charge, demand and receive, the
following fees, instead of those to which they are now entitled for
the like services; that is to say, for transcribing the docket entries
directed by this act, fifty cents for each action, suit or prosecution,
to be included in the bill of costs; for recording in his record books
every matter and thing required to be recorded, ten cents per side;
for every exemplification or official copy under his certificate and
seal of office, when required, ten cents per side; and for the certifi-
cate and seal annexed to such exemplifications, forty cents.
11. Provided nevertheless and be it enacted, That nothing herein
contained shall be construed or intended to lessen or to take away
the duty of the register of wills in each and every county within
this state, to record wills, inventories, accounts, and other in-
struments and papers returned and filed, or to be returned and filed
in his office, but all such wills, inventories, accounts, and other in-
struments and papers, now required by law to be recorded, shall
be recorded under the direction, and subject to the inspection and
examination of the judges of the orphans courts, by the periods
and in the manner required by this act.
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. Dec. Ses. 1817.
Compensation
to clerks.
Proviso.
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CHAPTER 120.
An act to confirm and make valid the title of James Cudjo,
Edward Cudjo, and Richard Cudjo, of Kent County, to a
certain Lot of Land therein mentioned.
Whereas, it has been represented to this general assembly, that
a. certain Joseph Cudjo, at the time of his death, was seized in his
demesne as of fee in a certain lot of land lying and being in Kent
county, and state of Maryland, and that by a paper executed by
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Passed Feb 4.
Preamble.
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