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CLERKS OF COURTS. [ART. 57.

Const art 15, s
1, art. 3, s 46,
art 4, s 37
1865. c 157,
1868, c 54
What part of
emoluments to
be paid into
treasury

SI. Every clerk of a Circuit Court except the clerks of the
courts of Baltimore city, the emoluments of whose office shall ex-
ceed the sum of three thousand dollars in any one year, after de-
ducting therefrom the necessary expenses incident to his office for
the same period, shall pay the excess to the treasurer, and every
such clerk, the emoluments of whose office shall not amount to the
sum of three thousand dollars in any one year as aforesaid, may
present a statement to the county commissioners of his county,

Statement of
proceeds, etc

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 commissioners are hereby authorized and em-
powered to pay or levy for the use of said clerk the amount of said
books, stationery and fuel as aforesaid; provided, that the amount

Not to exceed
what amount.

so paid or levied, shall not. when added to the said net proceeds of
his office, exceed the sum of three thousand dollars.

1862. c 255
Return of ac-
counts of re-
ceipts and
expenses

52. Every clerk, including the clerk of the Court of Appeals,
shall twice in every year, on the first Monday in June and Decem-
ber, return a full and accurate account of all his fees, emoluments,
and receipts, whether on his own account as such clerk, or for the
State, city, or county, including fines and forfeitures, and also of
all expenses incident to his office, and such accounts shall be ren-
dered under oath, and in such forms and supported by such proofs
as shall be prescribed by the comptroller; and every clerk, in-
cluding said clerk of the Court of Appeals, shall render with his
account of the expenses incident to his office, a list of the clerks
employed by him, stating the rate of compensation allowed to each,
and the duties which they severally perform, and, also, the sums
paid for stationery, official and contingent expenses, fuel and other
things, and stating the purposes for which said expenses are applied;
and in the account of fees, there shall be a separate statement of all
those fees charged during the six months included in said account,
which, at the date of said account, remained uncollected.

Art 18, s 11.
1853, c 444, s 3.
Penalty for false
swearing to
account.

SS. Any clerk who shall be guilty of false swearing in taking
the oath required by the preceding section, with the intention to
deceive and defraud the treasury, shall be guilty of perjury.

Id s 12
Const art. 3, s
45, art 4, s 37;
art 15, s 1
1853, c 444, s 6,
1868, c 54
Bond liable for
surplus.

54. The official bonds of all such clerks shall be answerable for
the emoluments of their offices respectively over and above the
sum of three thousand dollars each, except the bonds of the clerks
of courts in Baltimore city, which shall be answerable for the emolu-
ments of their several offices over and above the sum of thirty-five
hundred dollars each, and they shall also, upon failure or neglect
to pay or account for the excess over and above said sums be each
subjected to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.