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pay the lawful costs accruing from such plaintiff or defendant
through such neglect or omission, not exceeding ten dollars; but
if the costs exceed that sum, then the plaintiff or defendant shall
be left to their remedy at common law; and every attorney
practicing in the court of any county or city whereof he is not
an inhabitant, may be sued in such county or city for any such
omission or neglect as if he resided therein.

14. In all cases of petitions for freedom, where the petition
shall be dismissed—or upon trial, the judgment be against such
petitioner, the attorney prosecuting or appearing to the same
shall pay all legal costs thereon, unless the court before whom
the same may be brought shall be of opinion under all circum-
stances that there was probable ground to suppose the said
petitioner had a right to freedom.

15. 15. No sheriff or deputy sheriff, warden or keeper of a jail, or
any of his deputies, no warden or keeper of the penitentiary, or
deputy warden or keeper thereof, shall be admitted to practice
as attorney in any of the courts of this State; and if any of said
officers shall practice law in any court of this State, he shall
forfeit fifty dollars for each offense.

16. No Register of Wills shall plead as an attorney in the
county where he is Register of Wills, for any person or persons,
on any pretense whatsoever.

17. No judge of any court in this State, including the judges
of the Orphans' Courts, shall act as attorney or solicitor in any
court of law or equity in this State during the time for which he
shall act as such.

STATE'S ATTORNEY.

18. The State's Attorney for each county shall, in such county,
prosecute and defend on the part of the State all cases in which
the State may be interested.

19. He shall, ex-officio, on the application of the sheriff of his
county, order execution to be issued for the recovery of all
fines, penalties and forfeitures which shall be imposed by any
court of record of this State, together with the costs accruing
thereon.