The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1910-07-15
PUBIC LOCAL LAWS
JANUARY SESSION, 1910
published by authority
CHAPTER 81.

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County, of which may hereafter be
brought in said Court, while sitting
as a Court of Equity; to provide and
maintain a general index of all judge
ments rendered by Justices Of the
Peace, now or hereafter to be record
ed in the Clerks office of said County |
a general index of all executions ap-
pearing on the judicial docket or
hereafter entered in said docket in
the said Clerks Office; a docket and
general index of all attachments now
existing or which may hereafter be
filed in the said Clerks Office; and a
general index of all tax sales made
and reported by the Treasurer of said
County; and to provide compensation
for the same.
Section /. Be it enacted be the Gen.
eral Assembly of Maryland. That the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Prince
Georges County be, and he is hereby
directed to make or cause to be made q
general index of all causes appearing
upon the Equity docket of said Court.
beginning with the earliest causes of
said docket; said general index to be
made upon the same plan and in similar
books as now used in said Clerks office
for general indexes of the land records,
in which index he shall place the name
of every party to each cause; and where
the suit is for the sale of lands of any
person deceased, or otherwise. the name
of said owner shall also appear in it's
prooer place in said general index; said
clerk shall enter, in connection with the
name of each person, the lumber or year
the of docket and the number OF the case
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or in which property was or is involved,
and where the papers in any have
been recorded the book and page OF
such record.
Section 2. And be it enacted, That
his Act, when and as each cause Is
brought, shall enter in said general in.
dex the names of all parties to said
| cause, and where the object of the suit
is the sale of lands, the name of the
| owner or claimant of said land, and
when and as the papers in any q
are recorded he look and page OF such
record, for which he shall be entitled
to charge and receive such fees as are
now charged for indexing in the gener-
al indexes of the land records, which
fees shall be taxed as and become part
of the costs of such cause, to be recover
ed as other costs in such cases are or
may be paid.
Section 8. And be it enacted, That
said Clerk be, and he is hereby directed
to make or cause to be made a general
index of all judgment rendered BY
Justice of the Peace of Prince George
County which are now recorded, or may
be hereafter recorded, as now provided
by law, in the records of the Circuit
Court for said County; said general in
dexes to be made upon the same plan
and in similar books as are now used in
the Clerks office for general indexes of
the land records, in which indexes shall
be entered the names of the parties to
said judments, the date of the recovery
of said judgment, and otherwise as now
provided by law or custom in the said
Clerks office, in which said index also
shall be entered whether said judgments
have been settled and satisfied, and
hereafter the said Clerk shall so enter
said judgments as when settled and
satifed.
Section 4. And be it enacted, that
the Clerk aforesaid, after the passage
of this Act, when and as each judgment
is recorded as heretofore provided shall
enter said judgments in said general in
dexes as herein provided, for which he
shall be entitled to charge and recover
| such fees as are now charged for index
ing in the general indexes of the land
records, which fees shall be taxed as
and become part of the costs on said
Judgment.
Section 5. And be it enacted that the
Clerk aforesaid shall provide and main
tain a docket and general index thereto
of all proceedings affecting titles to
land by way of condemnation or writs
of inquisition, and by way of sales of
land Under writs of execution; a sep
arate docket and index thereto of all
attachments issued out of the Circuit
Court or issued by the Justices of the
Peace of said County and recorded rs
provided by law in the office of the
Clerk of said county; and likewise to
record in substantial books all proceed
ings of his office, whether at law or in
c%hancery, affecting titles to land and
proper to be recorded, as now provided
OF hereafter directed by law.
Section 6. And be it enacted that
the aforesaid Clerk is authorized aud
directed to maintain dockets and gener-
al indexes thereto of all proceedings
filed in his Office by the Treasurer of
Prince Georges county, and to provide
and maintain a special docket and index
thereto, to be designated and known as
the Tax Sale Book. in which shall ap-
pear under proper index the name of
each and every person In whose name
| property has or may hereafter DO sold
for y default in the payment OF taxes,
which sales have or may hereatter be
reported to the Circuit Court as pro-
yided by law. which docket shall be
provided with space to enter the time
of redemption of the said property SO
sold and reported, and space for such
other entries as shall afford complete
and accurate information relative ia
the status of all property sold as afor-
said for a default in the payment OF.
taxes or the redemption thereof; and
the Treasurer of said County Is hereby
authorized and directed to report to the
said Clerk of the Circuit Court the re-
demption of all property cold for taxes
for which report the said treasurer
shall be authorized to charge a fee OF
twenty five cents for each redemption
so reported, which fee shall be charged
as a part of the penalty and costs as
to the said sale for taxes, to be paid by
the person redeeming said property,
and all such fees so collected shall be
credited to the redemption fund now or
hereafter provided by law relative to
the duty of the said Treasurer.
Section Z. And be it enacted, That
when and as the dockets and indexes
as herein provided are completed the
County Commissioners of Prince
Georges County be, and they are here
by authorized and directed to levy for
said purpose an amount sufficient to
nav what is a fair and reas Enable
charge for the work aforesaid, as we'll
as for the cost and proper expense for
the books. furniture, and fixtures re-
ouisite to preserve and keep the said
records in good order and shape; pro-
vided, that the cost of the work herein
authorized and directed shall first be
met out of the current fees Of the office
of the said Clerk over and above the
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