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788. The clerk, of said court shall file and record the said
decrees, and docket the cases of the-application therefor, and in
the said decree, and to be recorded therewith, shall file a copy
of the mortgage upon which the same was rendered; and shall
be entitled to the usual fees for such services.

789. Any entry on the docket of said court, by the person
entitled to assign the said mortgage claim of the use and benefit
of said decrees, shall have the same effect as assignments and
conveyances of the said mortgage interests, to have effect and
precedence from the times of their respective entries; and the
said entries shall not be made without an order, or direction in
writing, to be acknowledged before the judge of said court, or .a
justice of the peace, by the persons purporting to sign the same,
and filed and recorded by said clerk.

790. The duly authorized entries upon the docket of said
court of the satisfaction of said decrees, and the discharge of
said mortgage claims, made by the persons entitled to receive
said claims, shall have the same effect to discharge the mort-
gaged property of said mortgagor, and all liens thereunder, as
any conveyances by the parties interested in such claims, and
the holders of the legal estate and interest therein, if competent
to convey, could have at law or in equity; but such entries shall
not be made without an order or direction in writing, acknow-
ledged by the person or persons purporting to have signed the
same, before the judge of said court, or a justice of the peace,
and filed by the clerk of said court; and the returns shall refer
to such orders or directions, and the names of the person or
persons aforesaid, and said order and directions shall be recorded
in said court with said decrees.

791. The said court may at discretion from time to time
appoint any other trustee or trustees in place of those ap-
pointed by the decree; and the proceeds of such sales shall be
accounted for and to, and distributed by, said court, in the
manner usual in cases of sales under decrees of said court.

792. Any mortgagee of property in the city of Baltimore, his
assignee, or executor, where a power to sell is contained in the
mortgage, may proceed under the general law relating to mort-
gages, but notices of sale under such power shall be published
in two daily newspapers in said city, for the period required by
law.