464 CLERKS OF COURTS. [ART. 17

1888, art. 17, sec. 5. 1860," art. 18, sec. 4. 1790, ch. 51. 1816, ch. 241.

6. Every clerk shall receive all books, documents, public
letters and packages sent to him pursuant to law, and shall
carefully dispose of them as the law requires.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1860, art. 18, sec. 5. 1777, ch. 12, sec. 3. 1794, ch. 54, sec 9.
1865, ch. 5. 1878, ch. 475. 1888, ch 475.

7. The clerks of the courts of this State may issue an execu-
tion on judgment or decree at any time after the rendition
thereof, directed to the sheriff of another county, whether the
return of nulla bona to a writ of execution issued to the sheriff
of the county or city wherein the said judgment or decree was
rendered has been made or not, which writ of execution, issued
and directed to the sheriff of another county, shall be made
returnable to the circuit court for the county to which it may
be sent, and if sent to the city of Baltimore returnable to the
superior court of said city; and there shall be sent therewith
by the clerk issuing the same to the clerk of the court to
which said writ shall be returnable a copy of the docket
entries in the case, upon which the court may proceed on said
execution by renewal or otherwise, in the same manner as if said
execution had issued on a judgment or decree rendered in said
court; and an attachment on judgment or decree shall be
regarded as an execution within the meaning of this section;
provided, that no judgment or decree shall be a lien upon real
estate situated in another county from that wherein the said
judgment or decree was obtained, or in the city of Baltimore,
except from the date of the entry of the copy of the docket
entries by the clerk of the court to which the said writ shall be
returnable.

Griffith v. Lynch, 21 Md. 575. Mitchell v Chesnut, 31 Md 521.

Ibid sec. 7. 1860, art. 18, sec. 6. 1777, ch. 13, sec. 4 1795, ch. 74, sec. 5.

8. Every clerk shall, on or before the first Monday of June
and first Monday of December in each year, transmit to the-
comptroller a list of all executions issued by the court of which
he is clerk, for fines, penalties or forfeitures, and also a list of
the fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by his court, and
a list and account under oath of all public money received by
him, which list shall contain the names of the parties, the
amount of the fines, penalties and forfeitures, and to whom
payable, with the costs thereon, and shall embrace all cases
not included in former lists returned by him, and shall show
from whom and on what account public money has been received..

Vansant v. State, 96 Md. 124.