its proceedings to the Governor on the first day of Decem-
ber. The board shall examine applicants for dentistry
who hold a diploma from a university or college, author-
ized to grant diplomas in dental surgery by the laws of
any one of the United States, and who is desirous of
practicing dentistry in this State. It is unlawful for any
person to practice dentistry in this State, unless such
person shall have obtained a certificate from the State
Board of Dentistry. Confirmation not required. Fees
for certificates, $10. Act of 1896, ch. 378.

Clerks of Courts.—Shall keep books and papers of his
office, file papers, enter judgments and decrees, record all
conveyances, furnish copies of papers and records, keep
minutes and proceedings of courts; shall keep a claims
docket; shall attend daily, Sundays and holidays excepted,
at his office; he shall not deliver any blank writ; shall
dispose of and receive public documents sent to him ;may
issue fi. fa. or attachments, or a judgment decree to
another county, return to be made to the court where
the jurisdiction is ; shall send copy of docket entries with
the writ: shall send semi-annual statements in June and
December to Comptroller, of exactions for fines, penalties
and forfeitures, also of fines, penalties and forfeitures
imposed, also of public money collected; shall pay in
March, June, September and December, to Treasurer, all
public money collected. County clerks receive five per
cent. of money collected; in city of Baltimore one per
cent. Salary, $3,000, bond, $14,000, to be approved by
the Judge of the Circuit Court, and recorded in the
court ; shall pay to State Treasurer all in excess of salary ;
excess of expenses in offices in Baltimore to be applied to
such clerks of conrts in Baltimore whose fees are deficient
up to the amount of their salaries; shall make an annual
particular statement to the Comptroller of receipts and
expenditures; false swearing in such statements is per-
jury; bond answerable for failure to pay excess of emolu-
ments 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 exe-
cution, and records of all proceedings relating to lands