ART. 17] GENERAL DUTIES OF CLERKS. 463

which he is clerk; and all entries and records shall be made
in a fair, legible hand, or with a typewriting 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 procured 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.

Hammond's Lessee v. Norris, 2 H. & J. 130. State v. Wayman, 2 G. & J.
255 Belt v. Abstract Co., 73 Md. 289.

1888, art. 17, sec. 2. 1886, ch. 322.

2. It shall be the duty of the clerks of the several courts of
equity of this State to provide a well-bound and suitable book, .
to be styled "the claims docket," in which, in all cases of
voluntary trusts, or under "decrees for payment of debts, or in
other cases in which creditors may prove their claims in said
court, shall be entered in alphabetical order, the names of the
creditors, the character and amount of their claims, and the
date when proven.

1890, ch. 383, sec. 2A.

3. Whenever any auditor's report of distribution of the pro-
ceeds of sale of real or personal property shall have been
ratified by any of the courts of this State, such audit and
ratification shall be forthwith recorded by the clerk of said
court in a book or books provided for that purpose, the cost of
said record to be taxed in the costs of the case, and a certified
copy of said record shall be evidence. This section shall not
apply to Somerset, Baltimore or Calvert counties.

1888, art. 17, sec. 3. 1860, art. 18, sec. 2. 1748, ch. 7, sec. 3.

4. Every clerk shall attend at his office for the transaction
of the business thereof every day, except Sundays, either in
person or by deputy, unless prevented by sickness, accident or
necessity.
Harris v. Register, 70 Md. 109-123.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1860, art. 18, sec. 3. 1715, ch. 48, sec. 11.

5. No clerk of any court of this State shall deliver to any
attorney, sheriff or other person any blank writ whatsoever;
and any clerk so offending shall be subject to a penalty of one
hundred dollars.