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CLERKS OF COURTS. [ART. 57.

with a margin in blank of about half an inch at the sides, top and
bottom of each page, and shall transmit the same, on or before the
first day of June in each year, to the commissioner of the Land
Office.

Art 18, s 56
1766, c 14, s 2.
To indorse date
of receipt on
deeds
2G & J 182

13. Every clerk who receives a deed, or instrument of writing
which is required to be recorded within a specific time, shall indorse
thereon the time when he receives the same.

BLANK WRITS

Id s. 3

1715, c. 48, s 11.
Blank writs.

Penalty.

14. No clerk of any court of this State shall deliver to any at-
torney, sheriff, or other person, any blank writ whatsoever; and any
clerk so offending shall be subject to a penalty of one hundred
dollars.

CALL OP DOCKET AND ENTRY OF JUDGMENTS.

Id s 46
18S8, c 363, s 1
Call of docket
and entry of
appearances.

15. The clerk shall, in the absence of the judge of the court on
occasion of sickness, at any regular or adjourned term of the court,
call over the civil appearance docket, take the returns of the sheriff,
and enter the appearance of the defendants when required, either in
person or by attorney.

Id s 47
1858, c 363, s 2.
To enter
judgment by
consent

16. He may, at any regular or adjourned term of the court, in
the absence of the judge aforesaid, by consent of parties in person
or by attorney, enter up judgments on the trial, appeal, reference,
and appearance dockets, in the same manner as if the judge was
present; and the same shall be as effectual as if the judge was in
court.

ENTRY OF JUDGMENT OR DECREE SATISFIED.

Id s 14
1840, c 96, s 1.
May enter judg-
ment or decree
satisfied upon
order.
8 Md 117,
36 Md 619.

17. The clerk of any court may enter any judgment or decree
satisfied upon the order in writing of the plaintiff or his attorney,
and shall file such order among the papers in the cause

SUPERSEDEAS.

Id s. 23.
1860, c 132, s 1.
To take super-
sedeas.
33 Md. 635.

18. The clerks of the Circuit Courts in the several counties, of
the Superior Court of Baltimore City, the Court of Common Pleas,
and Baltimore City Court, shall have the power and jurisdiction to
take supersedeas of judgments and decrees in their respective courts,
as a justice of the peace in the counties has by law, and the super-
sedeas as taken shall have the same effect as if taken by a justice of
the peace; and every security in a supersedeas of a judgment ren-
dered in the respective courts, and superseded before the clerks of
said courts, shall sign the same, or, if they cannot write, make their
marks, to be attested by the clerk; and the several clerks shall be

Fees.

entitled to a fee of twenty-five cents for each supersedeas. It shall
not be lawful for justices of the peace to take supersedeas of judg-
ments recovered in the aforementioned courts of Baltimore city.