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clerk to make such payment shall amount to a forfeiture of the
commissions to which he would otherwise be entitled; any recov-
ery on the bond of the clerk, for the non-payment of public money
received by him, shall be evidence of a misdemeanor in office, for
which, upon conviction, he may be removed.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 18, sec. 8. 1874, ch. 231. 1876, ch. 363.

9. For receiving and paying over all public money received
for licenses, fines or otherwise, the several clerks of courts of this
State shall receive five per centum, except the clerk of the court
of common pleas of the city of Baltimore, who shall receive one
per centum commissions for receiving and paying over such
public money.

Ibid. sec. 9. 1853, ch. 444, sec. 1. 1862, ch. 255. 1865, ch. 157.

10. The clerks of the circuit courts for the counties, the
emoluments of whose office shall exceed the sum of three thous-
and dollars in any one year, after deducting therefrom the neces-
sary expenses incident to their office for the same period, shall
pay the excess to the treasurer; and the clerk of the court of
appeals shall also pay the excess over the sum of three thousand
dollars, after making the deductions aforesaid; and every such,
circuit court 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, 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 Mon-
day in June in each year; and the said county commissioners 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 net proceeds of his office, exceed the
sum of three thousand dollars.

1868, ch. 54.

11. Whenever the fees or other compensation of any of the
clerks of the courts of Baltimore city shall, after the payment of