ART. 17] OFFICIAL BOND. 475

he, the said A B., his executors or administrators, shall sur-
render and deliver up, or cause to, be surrendered and deliv-
ered up to the next person who shall succeed him in said
office, all the papers and record books being in said office, in
good order and repair, with the records and entries faithfully,
legibly and truly made up and entered, during the time he hath
officiated in the said clerk's office, without favor or affection,
but according to the truth and the nature of the thing, and
shall well and faithfully pay over to the treasurer of the State
of Maryland all sums of money received by him for the use of
the State, according to law, in the manner and at the time
limited by law, without fraud or further delay, and shall well
and truly account for the same with the officer or person or
persons authorized to receive the same; and the duty of his
said office by law imposed legally, duly and faithfully shall
discharge, according to law and the true intent and meaning of
the law in such case made and provided, then the above obliga-
tion to be void and of none effect, or else to remain in full
force and virtue in law."
State v. Wayman, 2 G. & J. 255 Belt v. Abstract Co., 73 Md. 289.

1888, art 17, sec. 45. 1860, art. 18, sec. 43. 1823, ch. 195, sec. 1. 1840, ch. 52.

48. The said bond shall be recorded in the office of the
court of which he is clerk, and shall be renewed every second
year during the first four days of the fall term of said court;
and where the circuit court for any county is held in December,
such court shall be deemed a fall term in the meaning of this
section.

Ibid. sec. 46. 1860, art. 18, sec. 44. 1823, ch. 195, sec. 2.

49. On default of any clerk to execute the bond required by
the two preceding sections, within the time therein prescribed,
such defaulter shall be subject to a penalty of one thousand
dollars, to be recovered by indictment in the name of the State,
in the circuit court for the county in which he shall reside.

Ibid. sec. 47. 1860, art. 18, sec. 45. 1823, ch. 195, sec. 3.

50. It shall be the duty of each clerk to transmit to the
comptroller, on the first day of January next after the execu-
tion of said bond, a certified copy thereof.

Ibid. sec. 48. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 140.

51. The clerks of the circuit courts for the several counties,
shall pay to the treasurer one hundred dollars each, when they
take the oath of office.