The board of supervisors shall provide for properly furnishing the courthouse and for supplying all county offices with necessary record books, stationery, seals, presses, iron safes, tables, chairs, furniture, and all other necessary articles, and the board shall provide the chancery clerk's office with a copy of the field notes of the United States survey, transcripts of records of other counties which relate to or affect titles of property in its county, the original entries of land and the necessary township maps, and provide for the safe and orderly keeping of all the records thereof, and shall make all needful allowances, payable out of the county treasury, therefor. On the order of the circuit court, or the chancery court, the board shall allow all sums expended for supplying the offices and courtrooms with all such necessary articles, but an allowance shall not be made for printing in record books of conveyances.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 51, art 4 (42); 1857, ch. 59, art 18; 1871, § 1365; 1880, § 2146; 1892, § 296; 1906, § 315; Hemingway's 1917, § 3688; 1930, § 222; 1942, § 2897.
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