ART. 38.] FEES OF OFFICERS. 301

For serving an attachment in partition and return, . . 1 50
For returning a writ of inquiry of damages, . . . 1 25
For empanelling a jury thereon, . . . . . 3 00

For swearing the same, each, ...... 15

For attendance, per day, . . . . . . . 1 25

For delivering commissions to supervisors of roads, to be

paid by the county, each, ...... 50

For bringing negro children before the Orphans' Court to

be bound as apprentices, to be paid by the master, . 2 00
For transfer of stock under execution, .... 1 00
For summoning appraisers in cases of distress for rent

and swearing them, each, ...... 20

For serving an execution, ...... 15

28. The sheriff shall have as poundage fees for levying an
execution at the rate of seven and a half per cent, on the first
twenty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents, and at the rate of three
per cent, on the residue; but if the execution be laid on any
interest in lands, only one-half of the poundage fees shall be
charged; and if laid upon lands, and the lands be not sold by
the sheriff, he shall charge only one-fourth of the poundage fees
aforesaid.

SURVEYORS.

29. The surveyors of the several counties and the city of Bal-
timore shall each be entitled to charge for his individual services,
under warrant of survey or re-survey directed from the land
office, under orders or warrants of re-survey directed from courts
of law, and under orders from courts of equity, a per diem of
four dollars for each day he may necessarily be engaged in per-
forming the duty the said orders and warrants enjoin on the
said surveyors; and when the same shall be required by the
person for whom the services shall be rendered, shall state his
account of such services under oath.