28                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 12

Appeals authorized by law may be taken with or without the assent
or joinder in such appeal of coplaintiffs or codefendants or other
parties.

23. In appeals from executive, administrative or judicial decisions
or actions, civil or criminal, of the State of Maryland, its instrumen-
talities, departments, commissions, agencies, or political subdivisions,
costs shall be assessed against the parties by the circuit courts of the
counties, the courts of Baltimore City, the Court of Special Appeals
and the Court of Appeals, as in cases between private suitors; and
said courts are expressly empowered and directed to assess costs
against the State of Maryland, its instrumentalities, departments,
commissions, agencies, or political subdivisions whenever costs would
be so assessed if the State were a private suitor, said costs to be paid
out of the budget of the State, or of the agency or political subdivi-
sion of the State concerned. Provided that in all cases of criminal
appeals [to the Court of Appeals of Maryland, and in all habeas
corpus appeals], the cost of printing the State's brief and record
extract, and any other costs incurred by the State, shall be paid
immediately by the political subdivision in which the case originated,
upon notice thereof from the Attorney General. [, and should the case
be decided against the State in favor of the appellant, all costs shall
be assessed against political subdivision in which the case origi-
nated.] Should any defendant against whom costs have been assessed
[by the Court of Appeals] in a criminal appeal [case or in a habeas
corpus appeal] fail to pay said costs to the political subdivision in
which the case originated, then it shall be the duty of the State's
attorney for said political subdivision to take the necessary steps to
recover the same. This section shall apply to all costs previously
incurred by the State for the printing of briefs and record extracts
in criminal cases and not yet paid by the political subdivision in
which the case originated.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 25 of Article 17
of the said Code (1957 Edition), title "Clerks of Courts", subtitle
"General Duties of Clerks", be and it is hereby repealed and re-en-
acted, with amendments, that Section 36 of the said Article and sub-
title of the Code be and it is hereby repealed, and that new Sections
46A, 46B and 46C be and they are hereby added to the said Article
of the Code, to follow immediately after Section 46 thereof and to be
under the new subtitle "Clerk of Court of Special Appeals", and all
to read as follows:

Article 17

25. Every clerk, including the [Clerk] clerks of the Court of
Appeals and of the Court of Special Appeals, shall annually return
to the Comptroller a full and accurate account of all his fees, emolu-
ments 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 incident 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 Comptroller; and every clerk, including
said [Clerk] clerks of the Court of Appeals and of the Court of
Special Appeals, shall render with his account of the expenses inci-
dent to his office, a list of the clerks employed by him, stating the
rate of compensation allowed to each, and the duties which they
severally perform, and, also, the sums paid for stationery, official and