ART. 17] CLERKS OF COURTS. 71

Witnesses and Testimony.

1830, ch. 86. 1896, ch. 35.

225, The court shall, on application of a party in interest,
or may, of its own motion, order, that instead of the mode of
taking testimony as provided in the foregoing sections, the wit-
nesses, or any of them, shall be examined orally in open court in
the presence of the judge or judges thereof, as to all or any of
the facts or matters relevant in the cause or proceeding, and the
evidence so taken shall be written down as delivered by the wit-
nesses by such person, and in such manner as the court may have
by special order or general rule directed, and when so written
down, shall, with such documentary proof as shall have been
with it offered and admitted, be filed as part of the proceedings,
to be used as if taken before an examiner; or if the court shall
have so ordered, such evidence shall be reduced to writing by
counsel in the same manner as bills of exceptions now are at
common law, and after the same shall have been signed by the
judge or judges before whom the testimony was taken, shall, with
the documentary proof at the same time offered and admitted, be
filed as part of the proceedings to be used as if taken before an
examiner.

ARTICLE XVII.

CLERKS OF COURTS.

2 A. Auditor's reports distributing proceeds of sale of real or per- sonal property to be recorded. Section not applicable to Som- erset, Baltimore or Calvert counties. 20A. Proceedings to be recorded whenever requested by party in interest upon payment of cost of recording, even though title to laud be not involved. Clerk of the Court of Appeals. 40 Salary of Clerk of Court of Appeals. Deputy Clerks —

their salaries. Record, books and dockets. Printing of rec- ords and briefs. 40A. Annual appropriation for cur- rent office expenses of the Clerk of the Court of Appeals. Clerks of the Circuit Courts. 58. To issue licenses. Antedating of licenses forbidden. 63. Clerk to lay before Grand Jury list of licenses issued — Pen- alty.