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debt at the time the transfer should have been made, or at any
time afterwards.

43. Any person whom the court may appoint to make any
transfer, shall be entitled to the sum of one dollar, to be paid by
the purchaser and recovered by him from the person who ought
to have made the transfer.

SUMMONING JURORS.

44. If the sheriff shall fail to summon a jury as required by
law, to attend the courts of this State, such failure shall be
deemed a contempt of court, and he shall be punished for such
contempt by the court, by fine or imprisonment, the fine not
to exceed five hundred dollars, or the imprisonment twenty
days.

45. He shall not permit any deputy to summon any person as
a juror without his direction in writing, specifying the name of
the person to be summoned.

COLLECTION OF OFFICERS' FEES.

46. The sheriff shall collect all fees due to the following officers
which may be placed in his hands for collection, between the
first day of January and the first day of May, in each year,
namely: Attorneys, Clerks of all the Courts, Commissioner of
the Land Office, Coroners, Criers, Register of Wills, Surveyors
and Sheriffs.

47. He may distrain, or execute the goods and chattels of any
person, against whom any fees are placed in his hands for col-
lection; Provided, he has sixty days previously delivered to
such person, or left at his place of abode, an account of such
fees.

48. If he shall be informed by the affidavit of any one taken
before a justice of the peace, that a person against whom he has
fees to collect has absconded, or is about to do so, the sheriff may
distrain or execute immediately, without previously having
delivered an account of fees; Provided, that if any such abscond-
ing debtor will give the sheriff good and sufficient security for
the payment of such officers' fees within sixty days, the sheriff
shall not sell his goods or chattels.