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of —— county, shall, at his own proper cost and charge, find a
supply of good and sufficient record books, necessary for the
entering up of all matters and things relating to such office, or
shall and will make, or cause to be made and entered, true,
legal and perfect records and entries, according to the truth and
nature of the matter or thing requiring to be entered or recorded,
and shall duly and carefully look after, sustain, preserve, repair
and maintain, all the several books, papers and records, now
being and remaining in the said office, as also all those that
from time to time, during his continuance in the said office,
shall be added thereunto, in such manner, as that in case of
death, or that he shall be legally dismissed from officiating
longer in said office, or that in case he shall remove or resign,
he the said A. B. his executors, or administrators, shall surren-
der and deliver up, or cause to be surrender and delivered up to
the next person who shall succeed him in said office, all the
papers and record books now being in the said office, in good
order and repair, as also all such other papers and record books
which shall be by him added, in like good order and repair,
with the records and entries faithfully, legally and truly made
up and entered, during the time he hath officiated in the said
clerk's office, without favour or affection, but according to the
truth and the nature of the thing, and shall well and faithfully
pay over to the treasurer of the —— shore, all sums of money re-
ceived by him for the use of the state under the provisions of
any law now existing, or which may hereafter be passed, in the
manner and at the time limited by such acts, without fraud or
further delay, and shall well and truly account for the same
with the officer or person or persons authorized to receive the
same, and the duty of his office, and all the other duties of his
said office, by law imposed, legally, duly and faithfully shall
discharge, according to law, and the true intent and meaning of
the act of assembly in such cases made and provided, that then
the above obligation to be void and of none effect, or else to
remain in full force and virtue in law.'
By 1823, ch. 195, the bonds are to be recorded in the county where the
party executing the same resides, and are to be annually renewed and ap-
proved.
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No clerk to
receive fees
till bond is
gives.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That from and after the tenth day
of July next, it shall not be lawful for any clerk of any county
in this state to receive the fees of the clerk's office, until such
county clerk have entered into bond as aforesaid, with good,
able and sufficient securities as aforesaid, being persons of
visible and landed estates within the state of Maryland.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That if any clerk of any county
shall neglect or refuse to pay into the treasury, or to the agent of
the state, any moneys of the said state in his hands, at the time
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