CLERKS OF COURTS 659

	52. Shall receive dockets and papers of justices of the peace. 53. Register and papers of notary public. Clerk of the Court of Appeals. 54. Salary of clerk of court 'of appeals. Deputy clerks — their salaries. Rec- ord books and dockets. Printing of records and briefs. 55. Renewal of official bond. 56. Residence at Annapolis, legal effect of. 57. Payment of $200 to treasurer upon qualifying. Clerks of the Circuit Courts. 58. Official bond; penalty and condition. 59. Recording and renewal of bond. 60. Penalty for neglect to give and renew bond. 61. Certified copy to be sent to comp- troller. 62. Payment to treasurer upon qualifying. 63. May call docket in absence of judges, when. 64. May enter judgments in absence of judges, when. 65. Shall record conveyances. 66. Conditional sales contracts; printed forms. 67. Names attached to deed, etc., to be typed or printed above or below signatures. 68. Shall record bonds. 69. Index of conveyances. 70. Index to be regularly kept up. 71. How conveyances shall be recorded. Abstract or substance of convey- ances to be made.	72. Such abstracts to be sent annually to commissioner of land office. 73. Time of receipt of conveyance to be endorsed thereon. 74. Index or conveyance to or by State Roads Commission. 75. Shall apply to comptroller for blank licenses. 76. Semi-annual return to comptroller of licenses issued. 77. Penalty for failure to apply for blank licenses. 78. Penalty for failure to make returns to comptroller. 79. Clerk to lay before grand jury list of licenses issued — Penalty. Clerks of Circuit Courts and Superior Court. 80. Delivery of official commissions. 81. Report to secretary of state of com- missions delivered. 82. Certificate of qualification to be given. 83. Taxes on officers' commissions to be paid to treasurer, when. Clerks and Registers Retirement Board. 84. Retirement board; powers. 85. Who eligible for retirement on pen- sion; conditions; retirement allow- ance. 86. Application for retirement; medical examination; report to Governor; appropriations. 87. Powers; quorum, meetings' and hear- ings; rules.

General Duties of Clerks.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 1. 1912, 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 be 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
judges of the circuit court for the respective counties or the supreme bench
of Baltimore City, as the case may be, in well bound books procured by him