110 CLERKS OF COURTS. [ART. 18,

Baltimore city, and the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas,
shall each have concurrent power with the judge of his court to
pass all orders nisi for the ratification of auditor's reports and
accounts, but not final orders.

27. The clerks of the Circuit Courts for the counties and the
city of Baltimore, and the clerk of the Superior Court of the city
of Baltimore, may each pass all orders nisi for the ratification of
sales made and reported under decrees or orders of the court of
which ho is clerk, but not final orders.

28. Every clerk may issue commissions to take testimony to
the standing commissioners appointed by his court for that pur-
pose, and if the parties agree thereto in writing, may issue a
commission to any person or persons named in such agreement.

29. "When an infant defendant is returned "summoned," the
clerk may issue a commission to some discreet person to assign a
guardian for and take the answer of such infant.

30. They may pass and issue orders of publication to notify
non-resident defendants.

31. No clerk shall receive any fees or compensation for services
rendered as clerk, until he has given bond executed and approved
as herein provided.

32. Every clerk shall make out accounts of his fees in a fair,
legible hand, and in words at length.

33. He shall deliver to either plaintiff or defendant, (if re-
quired,) full copies, in a fair, legible hand, of all the costs of suib
recovered by or against the party requiring the same; and on
failure to do so, such clerk shall forfeit and pay thirty dollars.

34. In all suits brought on bonds given to the State, the clerk
shall, before he issues the writ, endorse thereon the name of the
party at whose instance and for whose use such suit is in-
stituted.

35. The clerks of all the courts to which jurors are summoned
shall administer to the sheriff the oath required to be taken by
him on his returning a panel of jurors.