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a certificate, under the seal of his office, of the qualification of any public
officer who^:has taken and subscribed the oaths of office before him, or whose
oath of office is recorded in his office.
See notes to sec. 80.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 74. 1912, sec. 71. 1904, sec. 70. 1888, sec. 66. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 139.

83. The clerks of the several circuit courts and of the superior court
of Baltimore City shall not administer the oath of office to any officer until
he pays the tax on his commission prescribed by law; and the said clerk shall
quarterly, on the first Monday of March, June, September and December,
pay to the treasurer all sums of money they shall have received for taxes on
commissions.
This section is substantially the same as art. 81, sec. 102.

Clerks and Registers Retirement Board.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 75. 1929, sec. 351, sec. 75.

84. A Board is hereby created and established, to be known as the
"Clerks and Registers Retirement Board" (hereinafter called the Retire-
ment Board) which shall consist of the Comptroller of the State of Mary-
land and the Clerk of the Court of Appeals of the State of Maryland and
the Treasurer of the State of Maryland for the time being, which said
Retirement Board shall have charge of the administration of the General
Retirement System herein created and established; and the Clerk of the
Court of Appeals shall, in addition to his other duties as a member of said
Retirement Board; act as Secretary thereof. The members of said Retire-
ment Board shall serve without pay, but they and said Board shall be reim-
bursed out of and by the State Treasury for all necessary expenses which
the. said Retirement Board, or its members may incur and sustain through
and by reason of services performed in administering this General Retire-
ment System for travel, rent, pay of witnesses, fees, costs, clerical help,
postage, packing, transportation and incidentals.

And said Retirement Board shall have the power (as hereinafter pro-
vided) to enforce its orders, to make by-laws, to employ such clerical help
as may be necessary, and to require the several Clerks of Courts of Record,
and the Registers of Wills of Maryland to furnish to it upon application,
free of cost, certified copies of any records or papers in their official custody
as, and when, necessary; and to require the attendance of witnesses and the
production of papers, under summons, subpoena or other process, before
said Retirement Board; for any purpose connected with the duties of said
Board; and to administer the oath to witnesses.

Said Board shall have the power to issue summons or process, when
sitting in any county or the City of Baltimore to the Sheriff of said
county or city; and such summons or process shall be served by said respec-
tive officers in the same manner as if the same was issued by :a court of
Record having jurisdiction of the subject matter within such respective
jurisdiction. The officer making such service of process and likewise wit-
nesses, for their attendance and mileage, shall receive the same fees as are
now or may hereafter be provided in cases in Courts of Record.

Whoever shall wilfully fail or refuse to obey a summons, subpoena or
other process issued by said Board and duly served, or whoever shall
wilfully refuse to testify or wilfully ignore or disobey any order of said
Retirement Board shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction