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failure to pay excess of emoluments over salary; Comptroller is
to fix pay of assistant clerks; assistant clerks must make affidavit
of their services; clerk may enter judgment or decrees satisfied,
also judgments of Justices of the Peace; shall keep docket, and
full and complete docket entries; dockets to be truly and regularly
indexed with names of plaintiff and defendant; shall enter full
particulars of every execution, and records of all proceedings
relating to lands shall be made within six months; records of first
execution is only to be made where land is sold under two or more
executions; failure to keep such records and dockets is made a mis-
demeanor, with a fine of $200, but the penalty does not apply to
Anne Arundel, Howard and Worcester counties; the copy of
the record, not required to be recorded, is to be made from
papers, minutes and docket entries; such copy is available as
transcripts of recorded judgments or decrees; he shall, if re-
quested, enter during vacation an appeal; he may enter appeal,
error, certiorari, injunction, trustee and receiver's bonds; he may
enter supersedeas; he shall take no supersedeas unless the sureties
are worth the judgment above debts; he has concurrent power
with judge to pass orders nisi for ratification of Auditor's accounts
and sales, but not final orders; he may issue commissions to take
testimony; he may pass orders of publication; he must make
out fees in a clear hand; he shall deliver to parties, upon demand,
full statement of costs under penalty of $30; he shall endorse
name of equitable plaintiff on all writs and bonds in name of
State; he may administer oaths; he shall receive and file without
fee, dockets of justices; he shall give transcripts thereof for
usual fees; he shall re deliver dockets to justices upon their
reappointment. The register and papers of notary public shall
be lodged with clerks, and clerks of courts may sue for possession
of same. (Article XVII, sections 1-39. ) Bond of clerks, $14, -
000; this shall be recorded; shall be renewed biennially at the
fall terra; penalty for default, $1, 000. A certified copy of bond
is to be sent to the Comptroller; clerks of courts shall pay $100
to the State Treasurer when they take the oath of office; he shall
call civil appearance docket and make usual entries in absence of
judges; he may enter up judgments by consent in absence of
judges; he shall record all conveyance's upon payment of fees; he
shall make a complete index of all conveyances recorded; he shall
keep up such indexes; he shall make, after recording, entry of
substance of all deeds on good royal writing-paper, and he shall send
the same to the Land Commissioner. Clerks of courts shall endorse
time of receipt of instruments to be recorded; shall apply annu-
ally, before May 10, to Comptroller for licenses; penalty $1, 000;
he shall issue licenses, by first Monday in June and December;
he shall return to Comptroller sworn statement of licenses issued
and money received therefor; penalty, the whole amount of