218 CLERKS OF COURTS. [ART. 17.

and immediately after each term of his court, enter and trans-
cribe therein the docket entries of each civil suit and action, legal
and equitable, which shall have been ended during the said term
by trial, judgment, decree, agreement, non pros or abatement;
and such transcript shall contain the style or names of the parties,
the nature of the case, the docket entries, and if superseded, the
name or names of the superseders, and other memoranda as they
appear upon the docket, and the judgment, decree, order or
agreement by which the several actions or suits were terminated;
and the bills of costs recoverable by the party in whose favor
they shall have been awarded, shall be likewise transcribed and
entered; and the said books shall be truly and regularly paged
and alphabetically indexed, with the names of plaintiffs and
defendants, and the whole completed before the ensuing term of
the court.

State v. Wayman, 2 C. & J. 255. Boteler v. State, 8 G & J 381, Mackall v.
Farmers,' Bank, 12 G & J 176. F W & B R R. Co v. Howard, 13 How.
331. Watkins v. State, 14 Md. 412. Mayor & C C. v. Co. Commissioners
Balto. Co , 19 Md. 564. Montgomery v. Murphy, 19 Md 576 State v. Logon,
33 Md. 1 Sanders v. McDonald, 63 Md. 510

P. G. L , (1860,) art 18, sec. 17 1845, ch. 254, secs. 1-2

19. The said clerks shall also transcribe and enter the docket
entries of every execution which shall be entered satisfied or
otherwise finally settled, and also the docket entries of every
execution or other final process under which any personal prop-
erty shall have been seized or taken, together with a copy of the
schedule or schedules accompanying such execution, and the
sheriff's return thereon, regularly paged and indexed as directed
in the preceding section; and for the services required in this
and the preceding section, the clerk shall be entitled to twenty-
five cents for each suit or action, to be taxed in the bill of costs
against the plaintiff, or in the additional costs of said execution,
and endorsed thereon.

Ibid. sec. 19. 1817, ch. 119, sec. 8. 1882, ch. 469.

20. The said clerk shall also, in well-bound books, make up
and complete a record of the proceedings in every case where the
title to real estate has been decided by decree, judgment or
award, and in all cases where any lands or tenements have been