ART. 18. ] CLERKS OP COURTS. 23

Chapter 157 amends sections 9, 51, as follows: (I. Supplement) 23. )

2. Every clerk except the clerk of the Court of Appeals, the
emoluments of whose office shall exceed the sum of two thousand
five hundred dollars in any one year, after deducting therefrom
the necessary expenses incident to his office for the same period,
shall pay the excess to the Treasurer, and the clerk of the Court
of Appeals shall pay the excess over the sum of three thousand
dollars after making the deductions aforesaid, and every such
clerk, the emoluments of whose office shall not amount to the
sum of two thousand five hundred dollars in any one year as
aforesaid, may present a statement to the County Commissioners
of his county, or to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
as the case may be, under oath, showing the net proceeds of his
office, together with a statement of the cost of the necessary
record books, stationery and fuel used in his office up to the first
Monday in June in each year, and the said county commis-
sioners or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are hereby
authorized and empowered to pay or levy for the use of said
clerk the amount of said books, stationery and fuel as aforesaid;
provided, that the amount so paid or levied, shall not, when
added to the said net proceeds of his office, exceed the sum of
two thousand five hundred dollars.

3. The said clerks shall record all deeds, mortgages, bills of
sale and other instruments required to be recorded in a well
bound book, which book shall contain an alphabetical index in
the names of all the parties to such deed, mortgage, bill of sale
or other instrument of writing; provided, that they shall not be
required to record or receive for recording any deed, mortgage,
bill of sale or other instrument of writing, unless the fees for
recording the same as regulated by law shall first be paid by the
person offering the same for record.

Passed March 24, 1865.