A. W. BRADFORD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

General Laws, relating to the Clerks of Courts,
their accounts and payments into the Treasury, be
and the same are hereby amended and re-enacted
so as to read as follows :

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9. Every Clerk, except the Clerk of the Court
of Appeals, the emoluments of whose office shall
exceed the sum of two thousand five hundred dol-
lars in any one year, after deducting therefrom the
necessary expenses incident to his office for the
same period, shall pay the excess to the Treasurer ;
and the Clerk of the Court of Appeals shall pay
the excess over the sum of three thousand dollars,
after making the deductions aforesaid.

r Clerks requir-
ed to pay ex-
cess of fees to
the Treasurer.

10. Every Clerk, including the Clerk of the
Court of Appeals, shall twice in every year, on the
first Monday in June and December, return 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 inci-
dent to his office, and such accounts shall be ren-
dered under oath, and in such forms and supported
by such proofs as shall be prescribed by the Comp-
troller ; 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 com-
pensation allowed to each, and the duties which
they severally perform, and, also, the sums paid
for stationery, official and contingent expenses,
fuel and other things, and stating the purposes for
which said expenses are applied ; and in the ac-
count of fees, there shall be a separate statement
of all those fees charged during the six months
included in said account which, at the date of said
account, remain uncollected.

Clerk required
to make semi-
annual state-
ment of emolu-
ments, &c.