468 CLERKS OF COURTS. [ART. 17

and immediately after each- term of his court, enter and tran-
scribe therein the docket entries of each civil suit and action,
legal and equitable, which shall have been ended during the
said term by trial, judgment, decree, agreement, nan pros or
abatement; and such transcript shall contain the style or
names of the parties, the nature of the case, the docket entries,
and, if superseded, the name or names of the superseders, and
other memoranda as they appear upon the docket, and the
judgment, decree, order or agreement by which the several
actions or suits were terminated; and the bills of costs recov-
erable by the party in whose favor they shall have been awarded
shall be likewise transcribed and entered; and the said books
shall be truly and regularly paged and alphabetically indexed
with the names of plaintiffs and defendants, and the whole
completed before the ensuing term of the court.

State v Wayman, 2 G. & J. 255 Boteler v. State, 8 G. & J. 381. Mackall
v. Farmers' Bank, 12 G. & J 176 P. W & B R. R. Co. v Howard, 13 How.
331. Watkins v State, 14 Md. 412 Mayor & C C v. Co. Commissioners
Balto. Co , 19 Md. 564 Montgomery v Murphy, 19 Md. 576. State v.
Logan, 33 Md. 1 Sanders v. McDonald, 63 Md. 510.

1888, art 17, sec. 19. 1860, art 18, sec. 17. 1845, ch 254, secs. 1, 2.

20. The said clerks shall also transcribe and enter the
docket entries of every execution which shall be entered satis-
fied or otherwise finally settled, and also the docket entries of
every execution or other final process under which any per-
sonal property shall have been seized or taken, together with a
copy of the schedule or schedules accompanying such execu-
tion, and the sheriff's return thereon, regularly paged and
, indexed as directed in the preceding section; and for the
services required in this and the preceding section, the clerk
shall be entitled to twenty-five cents for each suit or action, to
be taxed in the bill of costs against the plaintiff, or in the
additional costs of said execution, and endorsed thereon.

Ibid. sec. 20. 1860, art. 16, sec. 19 1817, ch. 119, sec 8 1882, ch. 469.

21. The said clerk shall also, in well-bound books, make up
and complete a record of the proceedings in every case where
the title to real estate has been decided by decree, judgment or
award, and in all cases where any lands or tenements have
been seized and sold under executions, together with the
several returns to such executions; and the records of all such
decrees, judgments, papers and proceedings shall be made up
at full length, and in the manner before required, within the