Magistrate may disallow payment to an informer

(1) The clerk shall keep a record book for his court, in which shall be entered, in the proper columns respectively, the number of the cause, the date of making the complaint, the name of the complainant, the name of the defendant and his age, if he is under fourteen years of age, the substance of the complaint, the statute under which the cause is tried, the date of adjudication, a minute of the adjudication, the name of the magistrate adjudicating, and the costs. (2) If the court refuses to entertain or dismisses a complaint, the clerk shall enter the refusal or dismissal, with the grounds thereof, in the record book.