The clerk of courts, in whose name a security is taken, or by whom an investment is made, and his successor in office, must receive the interest and principal as it becomes due, and apply and invest the same as the court may direct; and must deposit with the county treasurer all securities taken, and keep an account in a book provided and kept for that purpose in the clerk’s office, free for inspection by all persons, of investments and moneys received by him thereon and the disposition thereof.

Source: CCivP 1877, § 587; CL 1887, § 5401; RCCivP 1903, § 626; RC 1919, § 2837; SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, § 37.1439.