108 CLERKS OF COURTS. [ART. 18.

15. The clerk of any court having the custody of dockets of
justices of the peace, may enter satisfied any judgment standing
open upon such dockets, upon the production by the party apply-
ing for such entry of the receipt of the plaintiff in the judgment
attested by a justice of the peace.

16. The clerk of every court of law or equity, except the Court
of Appeals, shall provide one or more well bound books, and
immediately after each term of his court, enter and transcribe
therein, the docket entries of each'civil suit and action, legal and
equitable, which shall have been ended during the said term by
trial, judgment, decree, agreement, non pros or abatement; and
such transcript shall contain the style or names of the parties,
the nature of the case, the docket entries, and if superseded, the
name or names of the superseders, and other memoranda as they
appear upon the docket, and the judgment, decree, order or
agreement by which the several actions or suits were terminated;
and the bills of costs recoverable by the party in whose favor
they shall have been awarded, shall be likewise transcribed and
entered, and the said books shall be truly and regularly paged
and alphabetically indexed, with the names of plaintiffs and
defendants, and the whole completed before the ensuing term of
the court.

17. The said clerk shall also transcribe and enter the docket
entries of every execution which shall be entered satisfied or
otherwise finally settled, and also the docket entries of every
execution or other final process under which any personal pro-
perty shall have been seized or taken, together with a copy of
the schedule or schedules accompanying such execution, and the
sheriff's return thereon, regularly paged and indexed as directed
in the preceding section, and for the services required in this and
the preceding section, the clerk shall be entitled to twenty-five
cents for each suit or action, to be taxed in the bill of costs
against the plaintiff, or in the additional costs of said execution,
and endorsed thereon.

18. If any clerk shall neglect or refuse to comply with the pro-
visions of the two preceding sections, he shall forfeit the sum of
two hundred dollars, for the use of the State.

19. No clerk shall record any judgment or decree except those
relating to the title of lands, or those under which lands have
been sold in virtue of an execution thereon.