CIRCUIT COURT.

1868, c. 5 repeals and re-enacts sections 54, 55, 56 and 57, [Sup. 629,] so as to read as follows:

1868, c. 5. Regular law

terms.

Juries.

Regular chancery terms.

54. There shall be three regular common law terms of the circuit court for Washington county, held at Hagerstown. The first of said terms to commence on the first Monday of March, the second on the fourth Monday of July, and the third on the second Monday of November in each year, to each of which aforesaid terms juries shall be summoned and returned in the mode and manner prescribed by the Public General Laws of the state.

55. There shall be annually six regular equity or chancery terms of said circuit court, the first of which shall commence on the first Monday of February, the second on the first Monday of March, (that being also the commencement of the common law March term of said court,) the third on the first Monday of June, the fourth on the fourth Monday of July, (that also being the commencement of the common law July term of said court,) the fifth on the first Monday of October, and the sixth on the second Monday of November, (that being also the commencement of the common law November term of said court,) and to which said equity Equity process. or chancery terms of said court, all equity process shall be made returnable respectively, and the said circuit court, as a court of equity, shall be considered as always open for the transaction of business therein.

In force and approved January 22, 1868.

By the act of 1868, c. 19 the clerk of the circuit court for Washington county is required to make a full and general alphabetical index, in a book or books, well bound for the purpose, of all deeds, mortgages, bills of sale and other conveyances of record in his office, which were recorded since the first day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-six, which index shall be in the name of each grantor, bargainor, donor or mortgagor, and each grantee, bargainee, donee or mort gagee, and shall refer to the book and page of the record of the several conveyances as aforesaid.

That the said clerk is hereby required to procure one new equity docket, well bound for the purpose, and transcribe therein in a fair, plain and legible hand all

the docket entries contained in equity docket No. 2, in the circuit court, with proper and suitable index or indexes to the same, and said new docket when so finished and completed shall be and is hereby declared to be substituted in the place and the stead of said original equity docket No. 2, and shall be as valid to all intents and purposes as the said original equity docket No. 2.

That the cost of said books shall be paid by the county commissioners for Washington county; and that the said clerk shall be paid for preparing and making said indexes out of the surplus proceeds of his office; and if there be no such surplus proceeds sufficient for such payment, then the balance or the whole amount, in case there should be no surplus at all, shall be paid by the county commissioners aforesaid, to be levied and collected as other county charges now are.

CLEARSPRING.

Powers of bur

1868, c. 76 repeals and re-enacts sections 75 and 76 to read as follows: 75. He shall see that all ordinances of the corporations 1868, c. 76. are faithfully executed, and shall, in virtue of his office, gess. have and exercise within the said town all the jurisdiction and powers of a justice of the peace, and in all cases of judgment for misdemeanor and refusal to obey the ordinances of said corporations, which may have the approval of a majority of the commissioners, shall have power to imprison for such periods of time, and in such manner as the burgess and commissioners by ordinance may direct, and shall report annually to the commissioners, during the first two days of their session, the general condition of the town, with an accurate account of money received and expended, to be published for the information of the citizens.

feitures.

76. No fines or forfeitures, imposed under any ordi- Fines and fornance of said town, shall exceed the sum of twenty dollars for any offence, and all such fines and forfeitures shall be recoverable before the burgess, for the use of the corporations, as small debts are collected by a justice of the peace.

In force and approved February 26, 1868.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

By the act of 1868, c. 68 the county commissioners of Washington county are hereby empowered to purchase the original records, field notes and books of the different surveys of Washington county, which may have been made by its several

county surveyors, or other surveyors, before and since its erection into a county, to be kept and preserved with other records of the county.

That the said commissioners shall be and are hereby empowered to levy such assessment on the real and personal property of said county, as shall raise a sufficient sum to pay for such records.

1868, c. 405. Extending

HAGERSTOWN.

1868, c. 405 adds the following sections under above title:

144. The mayor and council of Hagerstown are aulimitown, thorized and empowered to extend and enlarge the corporate limits of said town, to such boundaries as, in their judgment, shall be deemed proper, and to establish the same, and that the said mayor and council shall have and exercise the same power and authority over the said corporate limits, so extended and enlarged as aforesaid, as they now have, or may hereafter have, by law.

Plat of town.

145. The said mayor and council shall cause a plat of said town, so extended and enlarged, to be made out, and have the same recorded among the land records of Washington county, and a certified copy thereof may be used in evidence in all suits or actions in which the said town or citizens thereof may be in any way interested, where the limits of said town are involved.

In force and approved March 28, 1868.

1868, c. 21, s. 1.

When not law

partridges.

PARTRIDGES.

1868, c. 21 enacts the following:

228. No person or persons shall either trap, shoot or ful to shoot, &c., in any manner wound or kill any partridge or partridges in Washington county, from the date of the passage of this act until the twentieth day of October, A. D., 1870.

Ibid. s. 2.

Fine.

229. Any person or persons violating the preceding section, shall pay a fine of ten dollars for each and every partridge killed or wounded in violation thereof, to be recovered before a justice of the peace of said

county, one-half of which fine shall be paid to the county commissioners for the use of the public schools of said county, and the other half to the informer.

This act further provides that the operation of all acts of assembly in conflict with this act be and are hereby suspended until the expiration of the same.

In force and approved February 18, 1868.

ROADS.

By the act of 1868, c. 66 a company is incorporated to construct a turnpike or gravel road from Cereafoss Cross Roads through or near Fair View to the Pennsylvania line in Washington county.

RAIL ROAD.

See, under Public Local Laws, Art. IV, City of Baltimore, the act of 1868, c. 344, relating to the Western Maryland Rail Road Company.

CIRCUIT COURT.

1868, c. 55 entitled an act to organize the circuit court for Wicomico county, and to regulate the terms thereof, enacts the following:

1863, c. 55, s. 1. Terms.

Ibid. s. 2. Juries.

Ibid. s. 3. Proceedings made valid.

Ibid. s. 4.

Rules of court.

SEC. 1. There shall be four terms of the circuit court for Wicomico county, to be held at Salisbury, commencing on the first Monday of the months of January and July, and the fourth Monday of the months of March and September in each year.

2. A jury shall be drawn and summoned, according to the mode prescribed by law for drawing and summoning jurors, to attend at the March and September terms of said court, or a majority of the Judges thereof, shall deem it expedient and shall so order, a jury may be drawn and summoned to the January and July terms, in the same manner as for other terms.

3. All proceedings which may have been had in the circuit court for Wicomico county, in pursuance of the order of the judges thereof, appointing terms thereof, be and they are hereby ratified, confirmed and made valid.

4. The judges of said court may pass all such rules as may be necessary for facilitating the business of the county, and such rules shall provide for the transaction of equity business, and the said court for equity business shall be considered as always open.

In force and approved February 18, 1868.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

1868, c. 50 entitled an act regulating the number and prescribing the powers and duties of the county commissioners for Wicomico county enacts the following:

Commission

1868, c. 50, s. 1. 5. There shall be five county commissioners for ers' powers and Wicomico county, who shall have all the powers and

duties.

perform such duties as are now or may hereafter be conferred by law upon the county commissioners in several counties in this state not inconsistent herewith, and in addition thereto shall have the entire control