126 CONSTABLES. [ART. 23.

3. For each new election district that may be formed and esta-
blished in the several counties, and for each additional ward that
may be created in the city of Baltimore, there shall be elected
by the legal and qualified voters thereof, at the time for electing
justices and constables in the other districts and wards, two jus-
tices of the peace and two constables, unless a different number
be specially provided by law.

EXECUTION OF PROCESS AND COLLECTION OF DEBTS.

4. Every constable shall obey and execute all process directed
to him from any justice of the peace concerning any matter,
debt or demand between party and party, and all criminal pro-
cess directed to him from any justice of the peace, and shall re-
turn such civil or criminal process according to the command
therein contained.

5. If a constable to whom any summons is delivered shall not
make return thereof according to the command of the same, it
shall be lawful for the justice who issued the said summons, upon
application of the plaintiff or his agent or attorney, and proof
made of the delivery of the said summons by the confession of
the constable or by the oath of the plaintiff, his agent or attorney
or any other credible witness, to call such constable before him,
and unless a good excuse is offered, fine him for said neglect any
sum not exceeding one dollar.

6. He shall serve and levy all executions issued by a justice of
the peace in the same manner as the sheriff is authorized to do,
but no constable shall summon appraisers in laying a writ of fieri
facias or attachment.

7. He shall have full power and authority to serve and ex-
ecute civil or criminal process, and to do and perform all matters
and things appertaining to the duties of his office throughout
the county or city in which he shall reside; and the responsi-
bility of constables and the securities on their bonds, shall be co-
extensive with their authority to serve and execute process; but
nothing herein shall compel any constable to serve or execute
civil process beyond the limits of the election district or ward
for which he shall be elected or appointed.

8. If any constable shall neglect to make due return of any
execution directed to him, the justice who issued the execution,