600 SHERIFFS. [ART. 88.

in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, and enter judgment
against him for the amercement so imposed, in the name of the
State, but for the use of the party aggrieved by the neglect of
said sheriff; which judgment shall be as valid as if rendered
upon verdict, and the party for whose use the same shall have
been entered, may sue out execution thereon.

24. If any sheriff shall die cither before or after the expira-
tion of his term of service, having in his hands any writ or
process executed or unexecuted, or in part executed, his exe-
cutor shall forthwith return the same to the clerk or register
of the court out of which it issued, together with all papers,
(if any,) showing the proceedings of such sheriff in virtue
thereof.

25. On application by the person for whose use such process
may have issued, the clerk or register shall issue such process as
he might have issued if the return had been made by the deceased
sheriff; and the same maybe issued before or after the return
day named in the process in the hands of such deceased sheriff;
or if the executor shall neglect or refuse to make the return as
aforesaid, the plaintiff may issue a duplicate or new writ, as
provided in the following section.

26. If any sheriff hath taken into possession, any goods
or chattels, lands or tenements, by virtue of any writ of exe-
cution, and shall remove out of the county or city wherein
he acted as sheriff before the return day of such execution, or
without having made any return thereof, the plaintiff or his
representative, before the return day, may obtain a duplicate
of such writ of execution, or after the return day a new writ
of execution directed to the sheriff or some coroner of the
county or city, for the time being, as the case may require;
under which duplicate or new writ of execution, such sheriff or
coroner may seize, and take into his possession, the goods or
chattels, lands or tenements seized and taken by the removed
sheriff, and sell the same as in other executions, and shall be
entitled to the whole poundage fees, to the exclusion of the
sheriff so removing.

27. If any sheriff has taken any goods, chattels, lands, or
tenements, in virtue of any execution, and shall die, resign
or remove from the county before the same are sold, and the
goods, chattels, lands or tenements, shall be insufficiently or