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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1825.

pledge, without a knowledge that such agent or factor had no'
authority to sell or deposite the same.
SEC. 9. Repealed by 1829, ch. 198, sec. 2.

CHAPTER 194,

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, a Supplement to an Act, entitled, an
Act incorporating into one, the several acts relating to Constable's Fees,
passed December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, chapter one
hundred and sixty- two.

Fees

allowed.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, the constables and
bailiffs, in and for the city of Baltimore, shall be entitled to
receive the fees set forth in the following table.
For serving warrant on claims not exceeding $10, and
return, $0 311
For serving warrant on claims exceeding $10, and not
exceeding $50, and return, $0 37 1/2
For serving warrant on claims exceeding $50, and
return, 0 50
For serving writ of replevin, 0 37 1/2
For summoning and swearing each appraiser, 0 20
In all cases of replevin, the constable to have a com-
mission of five per centum, to be charged as costs
on the amount of the appraisement whenever the
case shall be settled, which appraisement shall be
first certified to be correct by the justice issuing the
writ of replevin.
For serving ca. sa ; fi. fa, or sci. fa, and return, 0 33 1/3
For serving a state warrant in all cases of trespass vi
et armis, trespass quare clausum fregit, to be paid
by the party applying for the same, 0 50

To
commence.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this supplementary act shall
be taken and construed to extend to all claims and demands that
shall accrue or arise after the first day of April next.

Repeal.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That any clause, matter or thing,
in any act contrary to the provisions of this supplement be, and
the same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 195.
AN ACT to repeal certain Acts of Assembly relative to Amerciaments, and
to lay a Tax on plaintiffs who may institute actions at law in the several
county courts of this state.

Tax on suit
instead of
amercia-
ment —
clerks to
account-
penalty.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Mart/land,
That instead of the amerciaments imposed by law upon every
plaintiff or defendant, not being an executor, administrator or
minor, who shall be cast in any suit or action, there shall be
and hereby is imposed upon every plaintiff or plaintiffs who