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20. If any person applies for a copy of the record of a judg-
ment or decree, in any ease where the judgment or decree is not
required by law to be recorded, the clerk shall make and certify
a copy of the same from the papers, minutes and docket entries
of such case, which shall be as available as a regular transcript
of a recorded judgment or decree.

21. The clerk of any court shall, upon application during the
vacation of said court, enter an appeal from the judgment, order
or decree of said court to the Court of Appeals.

22. The clerks may approve any appeal bond, writ of error
bond, bond for removal of proceedings by writ of certiorari, in-
junction bond, trustee's bond or receiver's bond, to be filed in
their respective courts.

23*. The clerks of the Circuit Courts in the several counties, of
the Superior Court of Baltimore city and the Court of Common
Pleas shall have the power and jurisdiction to take supersedeas
of judgments and decrees in their respective courts, as a justice
of the peace has by law, and the supersedeas as taken shall have
the same effect as if taken by a justice of the peace; and every
security in a supersedeas of a judgment rendered in the respect-
ive courts, and superseded before the clerks of said courts, shall
sign the same, or if they cannot write, make their marks, to be
attested by the clerk; and the several clerks shall be entitled to
a fee of twenty-five cents for each supersedeas.

24*. It shall be the duty of the clerks of the respective courts
and of the justices of the peace, in taking the supersedeas of any
judgment, to accept no party as a superseder, unless satisfied
that said party is worth in real or personal estate, over and
above his actual debts, the full amount of the judgment proposed
to be superseded.

25*. It shall not be lawful for the justices of the peace of the
city of Baltimore to take supersedeas of any judgment recovered
after the seventh day of February eighteen hundred and sixty,
in the Court of Common Pleas, or the Superior Court of Balti-
. more city, but such supersedeas shall be taken by the clerks of
said courts respectively.

26. The clerks of the several Circuit Courts for the counties
and the city of Baltimore, the clerk of the Superior Court of