470 CLERKS OF COURTS. [ART. 17

1888, art. 17, sec. 24. 1860, art. 18, sec. 22. 1723, ch. 8, sec. 5. 1822, ch.

131. 1826, ch. 200, sec. 3. 1842, ch. 70. 1853, ch. 374.
26. The clerks may approve any appeal bond, writ of error
bond, bond for removal of proceedings by writ of certiorari,
injunction bond, trustee's bond or receiver's bond to be filed
in their respective courts.

Ibid. sec. 25. 1860, art. 18, sec. 23. 1860, ch. 132, sec. 1.
27. The clerks of the circuit courts for the several counties,
of the superior court of Baltimore city, the court of common
pleas, the Baltimore city court, and the circuit court and circuit
court No. 2 of Baltimore city shall have the power and juris-
diction to take supersedeas of judgments and decrees in their
respective courts, as a justice of the peace in the counties has
by law; and the supersedeas so taken shall have the same effect
as if taken by a justice of the peace; and every surety in a
supersedeas of a judgment rendered in the respective courts,
and superseded before the clerks of said courts, shall sign the
same, or if he cannot write shall moke his mark, to be attested
by the clerk; and the several clerks shall be entitled to a fee
of twenty-five cents for each supersedeas.
Bowes v. Isaacs, 33 Md. 635. Smith v. Bowes, 38 Md. 463.

Ibid. sec. 26. 1860, art. 18, sec. 24. 1860, ch. 132, sec. 2.

28. It shall be the duty of the clerks of the respective
courts and of the justices of the peace, in taking the super-
sedeas of any judgment, to accept no party as a superseder unless
satisfied that he is worth in real or personal estate, over and
above his actual debts, the full amount of the judgment pro-
posed to be superseded.

Ibid. sec. 27. 1860, art. 18, sec. 25. 1860, ch. 132, sec. 3.

29. It shall not be lawful for the justices of the peace of the
city of Baltimore to take supersedeas of any judgment recovered
in the court of common pleas, the superior court of Baltimore
city, or the Baltimore city court, or of any decree entered in the
circuit court or circuit court No. 2 of Baltimore city, but such
supersedeas shall be taken by the clerks of said courts,
respectively.

Ibid. sec. 28. 1860, art. 18, sec. 26. 1853, ch. 412.

30. The clerks of the several circuit courts for the counties,
the clerk of the court of common pleas, and of the circuit court
and circuit court No. 2 of Baltimore city shall each have con-