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CLERKS OF COURTS. [ART. 57.

office of clerk of the Circuit Court for ———— county, shall, at his
own proper cost and charge, find a supply of good and sufficient
record books necessary for the entering up of all matters and things
relating to such office, and shall and will make or cause to be made
and entered, true, legal, and perfect. records and entries, according
to the truth and nature of the matter or thing required to be entered
or recorded, and shall duly and carefully look after, sustain, pre-
serve, repair and maintain all the several books, papers, and records
being and remaining in the said office, as also those that from time
to time during his continuance in the said office shall be added
thereunto, in such manner as that in case of death, or that he shall
be legally dismissed from officiating longer in said office, or that in
case he shall remove or resign, he, the said A. B, his executors or
administrators, shall surrender and deliver up, or cause to be sur-
rendered and delivered up to the next person who shall succeed him
in said office, all the papers and record books being in said office in
good order and repair, with the records and entries faithfully legibly,
and truly made up and entered, during the time he hath officiated
in the said clerk's office, without favor or affection, but according to
the truth and the nature of the thing, and shall well and faithfully
pay over to the treasurer of the State of Maryland all sums of money
received by him for the use of the State, according to law, in the
manner and at the time limited by law, without fraud or further
delay, and shall well and truly account for the same with the officer
or person or persons authorized to receive the same; and the duty
of his said office by law imposed, legally, duly, and faithfully shall
discharge, according to law and the true intent and meaning of the
law in such case made and provided, then the above obligation to
be void and of none effect, or else to remain in full force and virtue
in law. "

Id s 43
1823, c 195, s 1,
1840, c 52
Where bond to
be recorded and
when renewed

45. The said bond shall be recorded in the office of the court of
which he is clerk, and shall be renewed every second year during the
first four days of the fall term of said court, and where the Circuit
Court for any county is held in December, such court shall be
deemed a fall term in the meaning of this section

Id s 44
1823, c 195, s 2.
Penalty for fail-
ing to give
bond

46. On default of any clerk to execute the bond required by the
two preceding sections within the time therein prescribed, such de-
faulter shall be subject to a penalty of one thousand dollars, to be
recovered by indictment in the name of the State, in the Circuit
Court for the county in which such officer shall reside.

Id s 45
1823, c 195, s S
Certified copy
to be sent to
comptroller.

47. It shall be the duty of each clerk to transmit to the comp-
troller, on the first day of January next after the execution of said
bond, a certified copy thereof.

COUNTER SECURITY.

1867, c 284.
How and when
clerks or regis-
ters required to
give counter
security

48. Whenever the surety of any clerk or register of wills of any
county or the city of Baltimore shall, by petition under oath, certify
to the judge of the Circuit Court of such county or city that he be-