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43. Annual appropriation for cur- rent office expenses of the clerk of the court of appeals. 44. Renewal of official bond. 45. Residence at Annapolis, legal effect of. 46. Payment of $200 to treasurer upon qualifying. Clerks of the Circuit Courts. 47. Official bond; penalty and condi- tion. 48. Recording and renewal of bond. 49. Penalty for neglect to give and renew bond. 50. Certified copy to be sent to comp- troller. 51. Payment to treasurer upon quali- fying. 52. May call docket in absence of judges, when. 53. May enter judgments in absence of judges, when. 54. Shall record conveyances. 55. Shall record bonds. 56. Index of conveyances. 57. Index to be regularly kept up. 58. How conveyances shall be re- corded. Abstract or substance of conveyances to be made.

59. Such abstracts to be sent annu- ally to commissioner of land office. 60. Time of receipt of conveyance to be endorsed thereon. 61. Shall apply to comptroller for blank licenses. 62. To issue licenses. Antedating of licenses forbidden. 63. Semi-annual return to comp- troller of licenses issued. 64. Penalty for failure to apply for blank licenses. 65. Penalty for failure to make re- turns to comptroller. 66. Clerk to lay before grand jury list of licenses issued-Ponalty. Clerks of Circuit Courts and Superior Court. 67. Delivery of official commissions. 68. Report to secretary of state of commissions delivered. 69. Certificate of qualification to be given. 70. Taxes on officers' commissions to be paid to treasurer, when.

General Duties of Clerks.

1888, art. 17, sec. 1. 1860, art. 18, sec. 1. 1766, ch. 14, sec. 2. 1817, ch. 119,
secs. 1, 2, 8 and 9. 1833, ch. 88. 1845, ch. 254. 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, if required; he shall
make proper entries of all the proceedings in the court of