466 CLERKS OF COURTS. [ART. 17

stationery and fuel, as aforesaid; provided, that the amount so
paid or levied shall not, when added to the net proceeds of his
office, exceed the sum of three thousand dollars.

1888, art 17, sec. 11. 1868, ch. 54.

12. Whenever the fees or other compensation of any of the
clerks of the courts of Baltimore city shall, after the payment
of all necessary expenses, fail to pay such clerk the salary pro-
vided for by the constitution, and said clerks, or any of them,
shall, under section first, article fifteen, of the constitution, have
paid to the State any sum or sums of money as excess, after
retaining his salary, such excess is hereby appropriated to the
payment of the salary or salaries so in arrear until each of said
clerks shall have received the full amount thereof; and it shall
be the duty of the comptroller of the State to draw a warrant
upon the State treasurer for the payment of said arrears out of
the said excess, not to exceed the amount so in arrear, and not
to exceed the whole amount of said excess paid into the
treasury of the State.

Ibid, sec 12 1860, art 18, sec. 10. 1853, ch. 444, secs 2, 3. 1862, ch. 255.

13. Every clerk, including the clerk of the court of appeals,
shall annually return to the comptroller a full and accurate
account of all his fees, emoluments and receipts, whether on
his own account as such clerk, or for the State, city or county,
including fines and forfeitures, and also of all expenses incident
to his office; and such accounts shall be rendered under oath,
and in such forms and supported by such proofs as shall be
prescribed by the comptroller; and every clerk, including said
clerk of the court of appeals, shall render with his account of
the expenses incident to his office, a list of the clerks employed
by him, stating the rate of compensation allowed to each, and
the duties which they severally perform, and, also, the sums
paid for stationery, official and contingent expenses, fuel and
other items, and stating the purposes for which said expenses
are applied; and in the account of fees there shall be a sepa-
rate statement of all those fees charged during the year included
in said account, which at the date of said account remained
uncollected.
Vansant v. State, 96 Md. 127.

Ibid. sec. 13. 1860, art. 16, sec. 11. 1853, ch. 444, sec. 5.

14. Any clerk who shall be guilty of false swearing in
taking the oath required by the preceding section and constitu-