ART. 54] CLERK—SUMMONS—WITNESSES—DOCKET. 1403

1904, ch. 495, sec. 2 A.

3. The commissioner of the land office shall have power to
appoint a clerk to complete the indexing of the prerogative
court records, indexing the records of the higher court of
chancery and such other indexing in the land office as may be
necessary, and shall receive a salary of one thousand dollars
per annum, and the sum of one thousand dollars, or as much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated annually
for said purpose. Said clerk shall be under the control of the
commissioner of the land office, and subject to removal at any
time, as other clerks in the land office.

1888, art. 54, sec. 3. 1860, art. 54, sec. 2. 1782, ch. 38, sec. 11.

4. He may issue summons for witnesses to testify in cases
pending before him and may compel their attendance and may
order depositions to be taken in writing on reasonable notice
to the opposite party to be used in such cases.

1902, ch. 577, sec. 3 A.

5. All writs, attachments, orders and notices issued from
the land office shall be served by the sheriffs of the respective
counties and Baltimore city and return made thereon in the
manner prescribed by the rules of the land office. The com-
missioner of the land office may make rules and regulations for
the taking of depositions before the regular examiners of the
circuit courts for the counties or Baltimore city, or any justice
of the peace, for the summoning of witnesses and compelling
their attendance. The pay of witnesses and the examiners or
justices of the peace shall be the same as is provided for in
equity cases. Any person authorized to take depositions shall
have the authority to issue subpoenas for witnesses when
directed to do so and the sheriff to whom they are directed shall
serve the same and make returns as in chancery cases in the
circuit court. The sheriffs of the counties and of Baltimore
city shall collect all costs and judgments of the land office as
other costs and judgments of the circuit courts are collected
that may bp placed in their hands for collection.

1888, art 54, sec. 4 1860, art. 54, sec. 3. 1853, ch. 415, sec. 2.

6. He shall keep a docket in the form of the dockets used in
courts of equity of all disputed cases affecting the title to
land, transcripts of which shall be evidence of the proceedings
thereon.