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CLEHKS OF COURTS. FART. 17

ARTICLE XVII

CLERKS OF COURTS.

General Duties of Clerks. 1. Custody of records and papers. General duties of. Records may be made by hand or type-writing machines. 2. Claims docket. 3. Auditor's report distributing pro- ceeds of sale of real or personal property to be recorded. Section not applicable to Somerset, Bal- timore or Calvert counties. 4. Attendance at office. 5. No blank writs to be delivered. 6. Disposition of books and documents sent. 7. To Issue execution. 8. Statement to comptroller of execu- tions for penalties. 9. Payment of public money to treas- urer. 10. Commissions on collections. 11. Emoluments. 12. Fees and compensation in Balti- more city. 13. Annual statement to comptroller of receipts and expenses. 14. Penalty for false swearing to same. 15. Liability of bond.

16. Compensation of assistant clerks. 17. Satisfaction of judgments; how en- tered. 18. On dockets of Justices of the peace. 19. Dockets and docket entries. 20. Docket entries of executions. 21. Record of cases affecting real es- tate. 22. Proceedings to be recorded when- ever requested by party in in- terest upon payment of cost of recording, even though title to land be not Involved. 23. Penalty for neglect to keep such dockets and records. 24. Record of decrees for divorce. 25. Copy of record; how made. 26. Entry of appeals. 27. Approval of bonds. 28. Supersedeas of Judgments; power to take. 29. Sureties upon supersedeas. 30. Justices in Baltimore city not to take supersedeas. 31. Orders nisi on auditors' accounts. 32. Orders nisi on sales. 33. Commissions to take testimony. 34. Orders of publication.

Sections 1 to 42 of article 17 are Included under the head, "General Duties of
Clerks." These sections, while enumerating many specific duties of clerks, no
where expressly declare it to be the duty of the clerk to pay his deputies their
salaries. The only express reference in these sections to the liability of the clerk's
bond, is found in" sections 9 and 15. State use Smith. v. Turner. 101 Md. 589.
(See section 47).

As to process, see art. 75. sec. 144, et seq.

As to duties of clerks in making up the record on appeal, see art. 5, sec. 34.

As to the duty of clerks to furnish attorneys access to the records, see art. 10.
sec. 7.

Clerks may not practice law while holding office—art. 10, sec. 16.

As to the completion of unfinished business by retiring and Incoming clerks, see
art. 36, sections 8 and 9.

As to the taking of the oath by clerks, see art. 70, sec. 4; see also, art. 70,
sections 12 and 13.

As to the powers of clerks of the circuit courts in insolvency cases, see art. 47.
sec. 18.