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necessary, to apply to the comptroller for blank licenses, in the
manner herein directed, shall forfeit and pay for every such,
failure or neglect, the sum of one thousand dollars.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 18, sec 64. 1853, ch. 86, sec. 6.

61. Any clerk who shall refuse or neglect to return to the
comptroller, lists and accounts of all licenses issued by him, as
hereinbefore required, shall be charged by the comptroller with
the whole amount of blank licenses delivered to him, at the sev-
eral rates fixed by law therefor; and the comptroller shall imme-
diately thereafter direct the official bond of such clerk to be put,
in suit for the recovery thereof.

Ibid. sec. 65. 1824, ch. 158. 1827, ch. 117, sec. 6.

62. Every clerk shall lay before every grand jury attending
his court a list of all licenses granted by him and not by him.
before returned to any grand jury.

Clerks of Circuit Courts and Superior Court of Balti-
more City.

P. G. L , (1860,) art. 18, sec. 48. 1843, ch. 284, sec 1.

63. All civil commissions issued by the governor and sent by
the secretary of State to the clerks of the respective circuit courts
and the clerk of the superior court of Baltimore city, shall be by
them respectively delivered immediately to the persons to whom,
such commissions are directed, and who may apply for the same.

Ibid. sec. 49. 1852, ch, 172, sec. 4.

64. The said clerks shall report to the secretary of State, at
least once a month, the names and offices of all officers who have
taken and subscribed the oaths required by the constitution and
laws to be taken before them.

Ibid. sec. 50. 1852, ch. 172, sec. 4. 1856, ch 154, sec. 93.

65. Each clerk of the circuit court for the counties, and the
superior court of Baltimore city, shall, when required to do so by
any person, give a certificate, under the seal of his office, of the
qualification of any public officer who has taken and subscribed