24 BALTIMORE COUNTY. [ART. 3.

twenty-five dollars, the failure of payment of which shall be
deemed and taken as resignation of the office of inspector, and
no person or persons shall act as inspector or corder of fire
wood within the limits herein named, unless having first com-
plied with the requirements of this act, unless in the absence of
and by permission of said inspector.

13. The inspector appointed under the provisions of this act,
shall enter upon his duty of office on the first Monday of April
next ensuing.

In force from February 5, 1864.

RECORDS BURNT.

Chapter 138 provides as follows: (I. Supplement, 17.)

14. James I. Given is appointed Commissioner of Records,
for the purpose of restoring and re-establishing such of the
records and indexes and papers and dockets, in the office of the
clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore county, as have been
either wholly or partially destroyed by fire; who, before lie
enters upon the duties required and authorized by this act, shall
take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation before some
Judge of a Court of Record in said county, which oath or affir-
mation, certified by the said Judge, shall be recorded among
the proceedings of the said commissioner: I, ————, do make
oath upon the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, (or affirm, as
the case may be,) that I will well and truly execute and perform
the duties prescribed and required to be performed by me as a
commissioner under the act entitled an act to provide for the
restoration of the record and papers destroyed or injured by-
fire in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore
county, so help me God.

15. The said commissioner shall have power to appoint a
clerk, who shall, under his direction, keep an accurate and
detailed record of his proceedings, which record shall, upon the
close of the commission be certified by the said commissioner
under his hand and seal, and be by him delivered to the clerk
of the Circuit Court for Baltimore county, to be by him kept