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sufficient securities; the sufficiency of which securities shall be
certified to by the Judge of each of said courts, and approved
by the Comptroller of the State as herein directed.

358. When the sufficiency of the securities in each of said
bonds is certified to by the judges of the several courts, the
bonds shall be immediately recorded among the proceedings
of the court to which the said clerk belongs, and then sent to
the Comptroller for his approval; and if the Comptroller shall
approve said bonds and securities he shall certify the same to
the judges of said several courts, and such certificates shall be
recorded in such respective courts.

359. Each of said clerks shall every second year renew his
said bond in the same penalty, and with securities to be certi-
fied and approved as hereinbefore directed.

360. If any one of the clerks of said courts shall fail to
give bond as hereinbefore directed, within thirty days after he
has received his commission, or shall fail to give a new bond
within thirty days after the expiration of two years from the
date of the bond previously given, it shall be regarded as a
misdemeanor in office, and upon conviction thereof he shall be
removed.

361. No deputy or assistant of a clerk shall become a
surety on his official bond.

362. The Clerks of the Superior Court of Baltimore City,
of the Common Pleas, and Baltimore City Court are each au-
thorized and required to prepare an index of all judgments
rendered in the courts aforesaid; and they shall severally, on
each day after the adjournment of court, enter in a book to be
provided for that purpose, an index of each judgment rendered
in the court whereof he is clerk; and they are authorized
severally to charge and receive ten cents for each judgment
indexed as aforesaid; said fee to be taxed in the bill of costs
of each case in which judgment is entered—to be collected as
other fees are now collected.