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said bonds and securities, he shall certify the same to the judges
of said several courts, and such certificates shall be recorded in
such respective courts.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 18, sec. 68.

215. Each of said clerks shall every second year renew his
said bond in the same penalty, and with securities to be certified
And approved as hereinbefore directed.

Ibid. sec. 69.

216. If any one of the clerks of said courts shall fail to give
bond as hereinbefore directed, within thirty days after he has
received his commission, or shall fail to give a new bond within
thirty days after the expiration of two years from the date of the
bond previously given, it shall be regarded as a misdemeanor in
office, and upon conviction thereof he shall be removed.

9 Md. 242.

Ibid

217. No deputy or assistant of a clerk shall become a surety
on his official bond.

Ibid. sec. 73. 1864, ch. 74. 1864, ch. 385.

218. The clerks of the superior court of Baltimore city, of the
common pleas, and Baltimore city court, are each authorized and
required to prepare an index of all judgments rendered in the
courts aforesaid; and they shall severally, on each day after the
adjournment of court, enter in a book to be provided for that
purpose, an index of each judgment rendered in the court
whereof he is clerk; and they are authorized severally to charge
and receive ten cents for each judgment indexed as aforesaid;
said fee to be taxed in the bill of costs of each case in which
judgment is entered—to be collected as other fees are now
collected.

All the provisions of sections 57-62 of article 17 of the
code of public general laws, title "Clerks of Courts," sub-title
"Clerks of the Circuit Courts," relating to the obtaining of
blank licenses, granting the same and returning an account
thereof to the comptroller by the clerks of the circuit courts for