12 CLERKS OF COURTS. [ART. 17

ceedings in the court of which he is clerk; and all entries and
records shall be made in a fair, legible hand, or with a typewrit-
ing machine, such machine to be approved by the judges of the
Circuit Court for the respective counties or the Supreme Bench
of Baltimore City, as the case may be, in well-bound books pro-
cured by him for that purpose; and he shall perform all the
duties required of him, or which may hereafter be required of
him, by law.

Clerks of the Circuit Courts.

1900, ch. 427.

54. Every clerk, after he records any deed, mortgage, release
of mortgage, or lease of real estate, shall before delivering the
original, carefully and with accuracy enter the substance of
such deed, mortgage, release of mortgage, or lease of real estate
—that is to say, the date of the deed, mortgage, release. of mort-
gage, or lease of real estate, the Christian names and surnames
of the parties, with their additions, if any; the name of the
land or estate, if any, in such deed, mortgage, release of mort-
gage, or lease of real estate mentioned to be conveyed; the
courses, metes and bounds thereof, if expressed in the deed,
mortgage, release of mortgage, or lease of real estate; and the
number of acres, if therein stated, and such other description of
the land conveyed as may be contained in such deed, mortgage,
release of mortgage, or lease of real estate, and the place where
the same may lie; the consideration for making the deed, mort-
gage, release of mortgage, or lease of real estate, and the estate
conveyed by such deed, mortgage, release of mortgage, or lease
of real estate, in the very expressions thereof; and also state
and certify, immediately after and following such entry, the day
such deed, mortgage, release of mortgage, or lease of real estate
was recorded, and shall sign his name thereto.

Ibid.

55. They shall make the entry, aforesaid, on good royal
writing paper, such as is commonly used in record books, each
sheet measuring in length nineteen inches, and in breadth twelve
inches, with a margin in blank of about half an inch at the
sides, top and bottom of each page, and shall transmit the same,