LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1839.

the proceedings under the fieri facias shall cease, and the case
be traced in the usual way.

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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all sheriffs, deputy sheriffs,
justices of the peace and constables, shall be allowed and re-
ceive for their services in enforcing the provisions of this act,
and said act of eighteen hundred and twenty-four, the same
fees which are allowed and paid in other criminal cases ; and
that any sheriff, or constable, making any sale or sales under
the provisions of this act, shall be allowed the same poundage
fees which are allowed for the execution of writs of fieri facias.

AN ACT, entitled, an Act further to provide for the Payment of the Interest
on the Public Debt of this State, and for the conversion of its Sterling
Bonds into Currency Debt.— 1839, ch. 294.

Officers'
fees.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in place of the interest on so much of the state's share of
the surplus revenue of the United States as was, in pursuance
of chapter three hundred and eight, of the acts of December
session, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, specially deposited
to the credit of the state in the Union Bank of Maryland, and
Franklin Bank of Baltimore, thirty-four thousand and sixty-
nine dollars and thirty-six cents, yearly, of the revenue to
accrue to the state after the thirtieth day of June next, from
the Baltimore and Washington Rail Road, shall, after deduct-
ing therefrom one thousand dollars per annum to provide for
the instruction of the indigent blind, as is by the said act di-
rected, be on the first day of July, in the year eighteen hun-
dred and forty-one, and annually thereafter, distributed by the
treasurer of the western shore among the several counties of
this state and the city of Baltimore, for the support of free
schools, in the manner by the said act also directed, and shall
be paid or invested by the said treasurer accordingly.

Appropria-
tion for in-
struction of
the indigent
blind and
free schools
to be taken
from
revenue to
accrue from
B. and W.
R. R.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the whole residue of tbc
said surplus revenue, and the interest thereon, received and
to be received, after deducting from the said interest thirty-
four thousand and sixty-nine dollars and thirty-six cents, for
the service of free schools for the current year, be, and the
same is hereby appropriated to the payment of the interest
on the public debt of this state; and that the treasurer of the
western shore be, and he is hereby authorized to draw the
same rateably from the said banks, as the exigencies of the
treasury for such purpose shall require.

Surplus
revenue on
deposite ap-
propriated.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the certificate for one hun-
dred and twenty thousand dollars of five per cent, debt of the
state, by the commissioner of loans, in pursuance of resolution
number seventy-seven, of eighteen hundred and thirty-eighty
lately issued in favour of, and sent to the treasurer of the
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Certificate
of state
stock to be
cancelled.