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who are in default, as if the same was taken under an ex parte
order.

Smith e Baldwin, 4 H. & J. 331. Stewart v. Duvall, 7 G. & J. 180. Somer-
ville v. Marbury, 7 G. & J. 275. Clary v. Grimes, 12 G. & J. 31. Kipp v.
Hanna, 2 Bl. 26. Kerr v. Martin, 4 Md. Ch. 342. Higgins v. Horwitz, 9 Gill,
541.

1888, ch. 486.

234. The incorporation in this article of the rules prescribed
by the court of appeals shall not deprive the said court of the
power to rescind or modify any of said rules, or to pass additional
rules, in their discretion.

ARTICLE XVII.

CLERKS OF COURTS.

1. General duties of. 2. Claims docket 3. Attendance at office 4. No blank writs to be delivered. 5. Disposition of books and docu- ments sent. 6. To issue execution. 7 Statement to comptroller of execu- tions for penalties 8. Payment of public money to treas- urer. 9. Commissions on collections 10. Emoluments 11. Fees and compensation in Balti- more city 12. Annual statement to comptroller of receipts and expenses. 13. Penalty for false swearing to same. 14. Liability of bond. 15. Compensation of assistant clerks. 16. Satisfaction of judgments; how entered. 17. On dockets of justices of the peace 18. Dockets and docket entries. 19. Docket entries of executions.

20. Record of cases affecting real estate. 21. Penalty for neglect to keep such dockets and records. 22. Copy of record ; how made. 23. Entry of appeals. 24. Approval of bonds. 25. Supersedeas of judgments ; power to take. 26. Sureties upon supersedeas. 27. Justices in Baltimore city not to take super sedeas. 28. Orders nisi on auditors' accounts. 29. Orders nisi on sales. 30. Commissions to take testimony, 31. Orders of publication. 32 Official bond. 33 Accounts of fees. 34. Statement of costs. 35. Endorsement on writ of name of equitable plaintiff in suits on bonds to the State. 36. May administer oaths. 37. Penalty for misdelivery of laws and public documents.