ART. 17] CLERKS OF COURTS. 11

two sureties or more thereon, as required by section 205 of this
article, provided, that such trustee or trustees has or have com-
plied with all the other requirements of law, and such sales,
deeds, demises and other instruments of writing are in conform-
ity with the laws; and provided further, that nothing in this sec-
tion shall affect the interest of bona fide purchasers and incum-
brancers without notice, and creditors who may have become
such prior to March 27, 1900; provided, nevertheless, that
nothing in this section shall operate to divert* any lien or claim
upon property passing under such trustees's deed, which may
now exsist, or which may hereafter arise, for the benefit and
protection of any cestui que trust, where the purchase money
may not have been properly applied.
*Divest.

ARTICLE XVII.

CLERKS OF COURTS.

	1. Custody of records and papers. General duties of. Records may be made by hand or typewriting machines Clerks of the Circuit Courts. 64. How conveyances shall be re-	corded. Abstract or substance of conveyances to be made. 55 Such abstracts to be sent an- nually to Commissioner of Land Office.

1900, ch. 126.

1. Every clerk shall have the custody of the books and papers
pertaining to his office, and shall carefully keep and preserve the
same; he shall file all papers delivered to him to be filed, and
shall record all judgments, decrees, deeds and writings which by
law are required to be recorded in the office of which he is clerk;
he shall issue all writs and process which by law may be issued
from the court of which he is clerk; he shall give a copy of any
paper or record in his office to any person applying for the same,
upon being paid the usual fees for transcribing such paper or
record, and shall annex thereto his certificate, under the seal of his
court, it required; he shall make proper entries of all the pro-