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Sheriff not to seize tobacco unstripped, but only for levies, taxes, &c.

—1715, ch. 46, sec. 1, ........

31

Sheriffs shall not charge more than single imprisonment fees, though

the parly is in prison at the suit of several persons — 1715, ch. 46,

sec. 15, ........ ...

34

Directions respecting suits on sheriffs' bonds — 1729, ch. 25,

77

All actions brought on them to be sued within five years after pass-

ing such bonds — 1729, ch. 25, sec, 3, ......

78

On default for failing to make return of any writ of execution, may

be amerced — 1794, ch. 54, sec. 1, ......

312

On amerciament for failing to make return of any original writ, or to

bring in persons taken on such writs — 1794, ch. 54, sec. 2, .

311

Directions respecting rules for a return — 1794, ch. 54, sec. 4,

311

Such judgments when paid by sheriffs to be assigned to them — 1794,

ch. 64, sec. 3, ........

311

See Amerciaments — Defaults.

fines recovered before a justice of the peace, except the informer's

part, to be paid by the constable to the sheriffs, and by them to the

treasurer— Feb. 1777, ch. 6,* .......

129

Duty of the sheriffs as to fines recovered in court — 1777, ch. 6,

129

Where any writ of capias ad satisfuciendum shall issue, poundage shall

in no case be demanded or taken upon execution thereof, or upon

charging any person in execution by virtue thereof for any greater

sum than the real debt bona tide due and claimed by the plaintiff

amounts to — Nov. 1779, ch. 25, sec. 4, ... . .

150

Such sum the clerk or the plaintiff, his agent or attorney, shall make

and specify on the back of such writ, with a note, (in case of pe-

nalty,) that the growing interest is claimed till payment — 1779, ch.

25, sec. 4, ...........

150

No sheriff shall be obliged to execute such writ without such endorse-

ment — 1779, ch. 25, sec. 4, .......

150

On execution or attachment on lands held for years, or a greater estate,

only one-half the poundage fees — 1790, ch. 59, sec. 2,*

267

If the estate in land shall not be chargeable by appraisement, and deli-

vered to the plaintiff, or by sale of the sheriff, the quarter part only

of the poundage fees shall be chargeable — 1790, ch. 59, sec. 2,*

267

Sheriffs empowered to receive and collect, by execution or otherwise,

all officers' fees put into their hands for collection within the time

limited by law, in the last year of their offices ; and all fees which

became or shall become due to them for ofticial services performed

in the second year of their offices, in as full and ample manner as

the said sheriffs might or could have received and collected the

same during the time of their being sheriffs, fur the space of one

year next ensuing the expiration of their respective offices — Nov.

1788, ch. 31, sec. 1, .........

250

An account to be previously left, written in words at length, and an

oath to be taken, that no part has been received, or any security or

satisfaction, except what is credited — 1788, ch. 31, sec. 2, .

250

* See note thereto.