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40. Accounts of fees. 41. Statement of costs. 42. Endorsement on writ of name of equitable plaintiff in suits on bonds to the state. 43. May administer oaths. 44. Penalty for misdelivery of laws and public documents. 45. Shall receive dockets and papers of justices of the peace. 46. Register and papers of notary public. Clerk of the Court of Appeals. 47. Salary of clerk of court of appeals. Deputy clerks — their salaries. Re- cord books and dockets. Printing of records and briefs. 48. Annual appropriation for current, office expenses of the clerk of the court of appeals. 49. Renewal of official bond. 50. Residence at Annapolis, legal effect of. 51. Payment of $200 to treasurer upon qualifying. Clerks of the Circuit Courts. 52. Official bond; penalty and condition. 53. Recording and renewal of bond. 54. Penalty for neglect to give and renew bond. 55. Certified copy to be sent to comp- troller. 56. Payment to treasurer upon qualifying.

57. May call docket in absence of judges, when. 58. May enter judgments in absence of judges, when. 59. Shall record conveyances. 60. Shall record bonds. 61 . Index of conveyances. 62. Index to be regularly kept up. 63. How conveyances shall be recorded. Abstract or substance of convey- ances to be made. 64. Such abstracts to be sent annually to commissioner of land office. 65. Time of receipt of conveyance to be endorsed thereon. 66. Shall apply to comptroller for blank licenses. 67. Semi-annual return to comptroller of licenses issued. 68. Penalty for failure to apply for blank licenses. 69. Penalty for failure to make returns to comptroller. 70. Clerk to lay before grand jury list of licenses issued — Penalty. Clerks of Circuit Courts and Superior Court. 71. Delivery of official commissions. 72. Report to secretary of state of com- missions delivered. 73. Certificate of qualification to be given. 74. Taxes on officers' commissions to be paid to treasurer, when.

General Duties of Clerks.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1766, ch. 14, sec. 2.

1817, ch. 119, secs. 1, 2, 8 and 9. 1833, ch. 88.

1845, ch. 254. 1900, ch. 126.

1. Every clerk shall have the custody of the books and papers pertain-
ing to his office, and shall carefully keep and preserve the same; he shall
file all papers delivered to him to be filed, and shall record all judgments,
decrees, deeds and writings which by law are required to be recorded in
the office of which he is clerk; he shall issue all writs and process which
by law may he issued from the court of which he is clerk; he shall give a
copy of any paper or record in his office to any person applying for the
same, upon being paid the usual fees for transcribing such paper or record,
and shall annex thereto his certificate, under the seal of his court, if re-
quired ; he shall make proper entries of all proceedings in the court of which
he* is clerk; and all entries and records shall be made in a fair, legible
hand, or with a typewriting machine, such machine to be approved by the