1843.

FRANCIS THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

chap. 349.

Duty of clerk
to furnish per-
sons with co-
pies.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the said clerk of Baltimore county court, to furnish any
person applying for the same, with copies of, or extracts
from the said record of partition, Fur the same fees, pro-
portioned to the amount of writing done, as he is now
authorized by law to charge for furnishing copies of, or
extracts from deeds recorded in his office, and that such
copies of the said record of partition, or any extract from
the same, describing with certainty any entire share of
said estate, or any entire lot, piece or parcel of land being
a distinctly set out parcel of such share, and designating
the parly to whom the same was allotted, shall be received
in evidence, in any court of law or equity in this slate, as
though the said entire share, or any such lot, piece or
parcel of land being parcel of such share, had been con-
vejed to the said distributee by separate deed.

CHAPTER 348.

Passed March
4, 1844.

An act to authorize and empower the several county courts in
this State to issue commissions to take testimony in caset
therein mentioned.

County courts
may issue
commission to
take testi-
mony.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, the several
county courts of this state shall have power and authority
to issue commissions to take testimony in any other state,
district or territory, in all cases of appeals from judg-
ments of justices of the peace, or magistrate's courts,
now pending or hereafter to be filed in said county courts,
in issuing which commissions, and the proceedings under
the same, the said county courts shall be governed in all
respects, by the provisions of the acts of the general as-
sembly of Maryland, passed at November session seven-
teen hundred and seventy-three, chapter seven, and No-
vember session seventeen hundred and eighty-seven,
chapter nine, any law or usage to the contrary notwith-
standing.

CHAPTER 349.

Passed March
7, 1844.

An act for the relief of James H. McHenry, and William-
George Read and Sophia C. Read, of Baltimore City.

Empowered
to close.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That it shall and may be lawful to James H. McHenry,