ART. 17] PAYMENTS TO TREASURER—SALARY. 465

1888, art. 17, sec. 8. 1860, art 18, sec. 7. 1800, ch. 82, sec. 4. ' 180S, ch.

127, sec. 3. 1822, ch. 217. 1825, ch. 208 1829, ch. 90. 1831, ch.

68 1845, ch. 71. 1868, ch. 197.

9. On the first Monday of March, June, September and
December, in each and every year, each clerk shall pay to the
treasurer all public money which he may have received, and on
his failure to do so within thirty days thereafter, his bond may
be put in suit for the use of the State, in which suit recovery
shall be had for the amount appearing to be due the State,
with interest at the rate of ten per cent, per annum, from the
date or dates when the same became payable as aforesaid; and
a, failure on the part of any clerk to make such payment shall
amount to a forfeiture of the commissions to which he would
otherwise be entitled; any recovery on the bond of the clerk
for the non-payment of public money received by him shall be
evidence of a misdemeanor in office, for which, upon conviction,
he may be removed.

Vansant v. State, 96 Md. 124.

Ibid, sec 9 1860, art. 18, sec. 8. 1874, ch. 231. 1876, ch. 363.
10. For receiving and paying over all public money received
for licenses, fines or otherwise, the several clerks of courts of
this State shall receive five per centum, except the clerk of the
court of common pleas, who shall receive one per centum com-
missions for receiving and paying over such public money.

Ibid. sec. 10. 1860, art. 18, sec. 9. 1853, ch. 444, sec 1. 1862, ch. 255.

1865, oh. 157.

11. The clerks of the circuit-courts for the counties, the
emoluments of whose office shall exceed the sum of three thou-
sand dollars in any one year, after deducting therefrom the
necessary expenses incident to their office for the same period,
shall pay the excess to the treasurer; and the clerk of the court
of appeals shall also pay the excess over the sum of three
thousand dollars, after making the deductions aforesaid; and
every such circuit court clerk, the emoluments of whose office
shall not amount to the sum of three thousand dollars in any
one year, as aforesaid, may present a statement to the county
commissioners of his county, under oath, showing the net pro-
ceeds of his office, together with a statement of the cost of the
necessary record books, stationery and fuel used in his office
up to the first Monday in June in each year; and the said
county commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to
pay or levy for the use of said clerk the amount of said books,
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