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36. No clerk shall deliver the laws and public documents sent
to him by the Librarian, to any other person than to him who is
entitled to receive the same, or to his order in writing, under the
penalty of fifteen dollars.

37. The clerks of the Circuit Courts for the several counties,
and the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the city of Balti-
more, shall receive and file without fee or reward the dockets
and papers of justices of the peace delivered to them, and shall
give transcripts thereof for the usual fees, and shall re-deliver
the same to the justice upon his re-appointment.

38. In case of the death, resignation, disqualification or
removal from office of a notary public, his register and other
public papers shall, within sixty days thereafter, be lodged in
the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for the county, or
Superior Court of Baltimore city, who may bring and maintain
actions of trover and detinue for the same; and such registers or
public papers shall not in any case be liable.to be seized or taken
in execution for debt, or for any demand whatsoever.

CLERK OF THE COURT or APPEALS.

39. The clerk of the Court of Appeals shall have the custody
of all the records and papers in the office of the late Court of
Appeals, of the former Court of Appeals, and of the General
Court, and shall give certified copies under the seal of his court
of such papers and records, and such copies shall be evidence in
the same manner as other certified copies of records are.

40. He shall carefully file among the records of his office,
without fee or reward, all extracts of deeds transmitted to him
by the clerks where such deeds are recorded; and when he shall
receive a sufficient number of such extracts as will form a record
book of the proper size, he shall cause the same to be well and
substantially bound in leather, and placed among the records of
his office.

41. He shall renew his bond on or before the first day of
August in every second year; which bond shall be approved by
the judges of the Court of Appeals, and recorded among the
records of said court.