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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1822.

quires that accounts of fees shall be delivered to the party
charged or left at his place of abode, before the first day of May
in any year, the said fees shall be sent out or demanded, shall
be and the same is hereby repealed.

Sixty days
notice.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful to exe-
eute the body, goods, chattels, lands or tenements of any person
charged with any officers' fees, who shall have a known resi-
dence, until after the expiration of sixty days from the time
that an account of such fees shall be delivered to the person so
charged or left at his last place of abode, unless such person
shall be about to abscond or remove, or conceal his effects.

Non-resi-
dents, &c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That every officer entitled to any
fees under the laws of this state for rendering services to any
person who is not a resident of this state, or not assessed on
taxable property therein, may require such fees to be paid at the
time of rendering such service or security for the payment of
the same,

CHAPTER 221.

* 1789, eh.
30.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act to carry into execution a resolve
of the Congress of the United Slates respecting the safe keeping of per-
sons committed under the authority of the United States, to gaols of this
state.

Allowance
to sheriffs.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the several sheriffs of this state shall be entitled to receive
the sum of thirty cents per day as a compensation for keeping
and supporting in their respective gaols each prisoner commit-
ted under the authority of the United States.

Security for
payment,
&c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be the duty of any
of the said sheriffs to receive into his gaol, or to retain therein or
in his custody, any prisoner committed or arrested under the au-
thority of the United States, except such as are or shall be com-
mitted or arrested for offences against the constitution or the
laws of the United States, unless the compensation for keeping
and supporting such prisoner as aforesaid, shall be paid or se-
cured to be paid to the satisfaction of such sheriff; and the sheriff
shall be entitled to receive such compensation in advance, and
itt default of payment for any prisoner in his custody, may dis-

Proviso.

charge such prisoner or permit him to go at large ; Provided, that
before any prisoner in jail at the time of passing this act, shall be
discharged or permitted to go at large in virtue thereof, the sheriff
in whose custody such prisoner may be, shall deliver a written
statement of his claim of compensation for keeping and support-
ing such prisoner to the plaintiff at whose suit such person shall
be, or is imprisoned, or if more than one action to the plaintiff
in each, or to the attorney or attorneys of such plaintiff or plain-
tiffs, with notice, that unless such claim, and also the accruing