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CHAP. 154.
Operation of sec-
tions of two acts
suspended
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2. And be it enacted, That the effort and operation of the thirty-
fourth section of the act passed at December session eighteen hun-
dred and seventeen, chapter sixteen, entitled, An act to establish
a bank, and incorporate a company, under the title of The Plan-
ters Bank of Prince-George's County, and of the twenty-seventh
section of the act passed at the same session, chapter ninety-three,
entitled, An act to establish a bank, and incorporate a company,
under the name of The Frederick County Bank, be and the same
are hereby suspended until the end of the next session of the gene-
ral assembly of Maryland.
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Passed Feb 12, 1820
In certain cases
clerks not to col-
lect fees by execu-
tion until deeds
&c. are enrolled,
&c
Same with respect
to registers of wills
Penalty for offend-
ing against provis-
ions of this act
When to take ef-
fect.
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CHAP. CLV.
An act for the better regulation of the Clerks and Registers of Wills of the several
Counties in this State.
1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That in
all cases where by the laws and usages of this state the clerks' of
the several county courts of this state are required to enrol deeds',
bills of sale, and other instruments of writing, and also in the cases
where judgments are required or directed to be recorded by the pro-
visions of an act, entitled, An act concerning the judgments and
judicial proceedings of the courts of justice in this state, and to
provide for the completion of the records in certain cases, passed
at December session eighteen hundred and seventeen, it shall not be
lawful for the several clerks to collect by execution any fees for en-
rolling the said deeds, bills of sale, or other instruments of writing,
or for making up and enrolling the said judgments, until the said
deeds, bills of sale and judgments, shall have been actually entered'
and enrolled on books to be kept by them for entering and enrolling
such deeds, bills of sale, other instruments of writing, and judg-
ments as aforesaid.
2. And be it enacted, That in all cases where by the laws and
usages of this state, or by the usages of the said offices, the regis-
ters of wills of the several counties of this state are required to en-
roll wills, codicils, inventories, lists of debts sperate and desperate,
and other papers and proceedings necessary to be enrolled, that the
registers of wills of the several and respective counties of this state,
shall not be entitled to collect for enrolling the same, by execution,
any fees, until the said wills, codicils, inventories, lists of debts
sperate and desperate, and other papers and proceedings, shall
have been actually enrolled in books to be kept by them for enroll-
ing the same.
3. And be it enacted, That if any clerk or register of wills of
any of the counties in this state, shall offend against any of the
provisions of this act, he shall forfeit for every such offence the sum
of one hundred dollars, to be recovered against, him by bill of in-
dictment, to be prosecuted in the county court of the county where
such offence shall have been committed.
4. And be it enacted, That this act of assembly shall not have ef-
fect until the first day of May eighteen hundred and twenty.
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Passed Feb 12 1820
Original act to ex-
tend only to banks
in Baltimore.
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CHAP. CLVI.
A Supplement to an act, entitled, An act relating to voting by Proxies in the
Banks of this State.
1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the
act, to which this is a supplement shall not be construed to extend
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