J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1377

retirement benefits for the officers and employees transferred to the
local retirement system. From and after the effective date of the
establishment of the local retirement system by the municipal corpo-
ration, the municipal corporation and its officers and employees shall
not be required to make any further contributions to the Employees
Retirement System FOR THE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
ELECTING TO WITHDRAW FROM SAID EMPLOYEES RE-
TIREMENT SYSTEM.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1963.

Approved April 30, 1963.

CHAPTER 642
(House Bill 855)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 1 of
Article 17 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Clerks of Court," subtitle "General Duties of Clerks" per-
mitting use of modern devices for recording court proceedings
and record entries; providing that the State Comptroller shall
approve cost of clerk's equipment before it shall be considered an
office expense.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 1 of Article 17 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Clerks of Court," subtitle "General Duties of
Clerks," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

1.

Every clerk shall have the custody of the books and papers per-
taining to his office, and shall carefully keep current and preserve
the same; he shall file all papers delivered to him to be filed, and
shall record all judgments, decress DECREES, deed and writings
which by law are required to be recorded in the office of which he is
clerk; he shall issue all writs and process which by law may be issued
from the court of which he is clerk; he shall give a copy of any paper
or record in his office to any person applying for the same, upon being
paid the usual fees for transcribing such paper or record, and shall
annex thereto his certificate, under the seal of this court, if required;
he shall make proper entries of all proceedings in the court of which
he is clerk; and all entries and records shall be made in a fair,
legible hand, or with a typewriter or by the use of appropriate
printed forms, or by photostat machine [if approved by the court,
or by a combination of one or more the aforegoing, in well-bound
books procured by him for the purpose ;] or by any modern method
now or hereafter devised for that purpose or by a combination of the
foregoing; and he shall perform all the duties required by him, by
law. [The cost of photostat machine shall, upon approval by the
court, be allowed as an expense of the office.] The cost of all equip-