The clerk of the circuit court, upon receiving the transcript, shall give a receipt to the person delivering it, and immediately endorse thereon the date of its delivery, and shall enter it on the proper docket.
Code 1858, § 3154 (deriv. Acts 1794, ch. 1, § 69); Shan., 4886; Code 1932, § 9035; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 27-406.