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for such fees shall not extend beyond two years after the date of
his letters, and such fees shall be applied to the payment of
officers' fees due from the sheriff, and not applied to any other
purpose until such officers' fees are paid.

54. No sheriff shall levy a distress or execution for officers'
fees, if the person from whom such fees are claimed shall pro-
duce the former sheriff's receipt, or otherwise make it appear
that the said fees have been paid, under a penalty of fifty dollars
for each offence.

PINES AND PENALTIES.

55. The sheriff shall be answerable for all fines, penalties and
forfeitures imposed on the inhabitants of his county by any court
of record of this State, unless he can show that the party on
whom the same was imposed is insolvent.

56. He may require the State's Attorney to issue an execution
for all fines, penalties or forfeitures so imposed and the costs;
Provided, that any person adjudged to pay a fine or penalty may
enter into a recognizance with security for the payment of the
same and costs, within sixty days, and no execution shall issue
for the same until the expiration of the sixty days.

57. All such executions shall be returnable at the next term
succeeding the issuing thereof, and if the sheriff returns that he
has taken the person against whom such execution issued, he
must produce the body of the person so taken, or acknowledge
in open court the receipt of the fine, penalty or forfeiture and
the costs thereon, unless he can show the defendant was released
from his custody under the insolvent laws.

58. All fines, forfeitures, penalties, and costs imposed as afore-
said, are to be paid to the sheriff, who shall pay the same, except
the costs, to the Treasurer, on or before the tenth of November
in each year, and the costs to the persons entitled to receive
them; Provided, when any person is entitled to any part of a
fine, forfeiture or penalty as informer or otherwise, the same
shall be paid by said sheriff to such person.

59. The sheriff shall deduct from each recognizance which
may be forfeited and by him collected, the costs incurred by the
county or city in which such recognizance may have been
taken, and pay over the same to the clerk of the court in which