320 CLERKS OP COURTS. [ART. 17.

P. G. L., (1860,) art., 18, sec. 22. 1723, ch. 8, sec 5. 1822, ch. 131.
1826, ch. 200, sec. 8. 1842, ch. 70. 1853, ch. 374.

24. The clerks may approve any appeal bond, writ of error
bond, bond for removal of proceedings by writ of certiorari, in-
junction bond, trustee's bond or receiver's bond, to be filed in
their respective courts.

Ibid. sec. 23. 1860, ch. 132, sec. 1.

25. The clerks of the circuit courts for the several counties,

of the superior court of Baltimore city, the court of common
pleas, the Baltimore city court, and the circuit court of Baltimore

city shall have the power and jurisdiction to take supersedeas of
judgments and decrees in their respective courts, as a justice of
the peace in the counties has by law; and the supersedeas so
taken shall have the same effect as if taken by a justice of the
peace; and every surety in a supersedeas of a judgment rendered
in the respective courts, and superseded before the clerks of said
courts, shall sign the same, or if he cannot write, shall make his
mark, to be attested by the clerk; and the several clerks shall be

entitled to a fee of twenty-five cents for each supersedeas.
Bowes v. Isaacs, 33 Md. 535 Smith v. Bowes, 38 Md. 463.

Ibid. sec. 24. 1860, ch. 132, sec. 2.

26. It shall be the duty of the clerks of the respective courts
and of the justices of the peace, in taking the supersedeas of any
judgment, to accept no party as a superseder unless satisfied that
he is worth in real or personal estate, over and above his actual

debts, the full amount of the judgment proposed to be super-
seded.

Ibid sec. 25 1860, ch. 132, sec. 3.

27. It shall not be lawful for the justices of the peace of the

city of Baltimore to take supersedeas of any judgment recovered
in the court of common pleas, the superior court of Baltimore

city, or the Baltimore city court, or of any decree entered in the
circuit court of Baltimore city, but such supersedeas shall be
taken by the clerks of said courts, respectively.

Ibid. sec. 26. 1853, ch. 412.

28. The clerks of the several circuit courts for the counties,

the clerk of the court of common pleas, and of the circuit court