FEES
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

FELO DE SE
 

FELONS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

FELONY

    Punishment of judges, &c. taking any illegal fee, gift,
&c. to influence his behaviour in his office,
    See Bribery.  Crimes, &c.
    Directions concerning the fees to constables for
serving warrants on criminal prosecutions,
    The fees of constables in Talbot county prescribed
in certain cases,
    Attorneys fees regulated,
    Part of the act of 1787, respecting costs in criminal
cases, repealed, &c.
    Fees of the register in chancery regulated,
—Penalty on demanding or receiving more,
    In case of the death of a sheriff, &c. without making
sale of property taken in execution, his executors,
&c. to receive only half the poundage fees, and
the next sheriff, &c. making sale, the other half,
—In case of such death before the return day, his
executors, &c. not to receive any poundage or other
fee for such services,
    Clerks recording deeds, &c. left unrecorded on the
death of former clerks, to be paid as for similar services,
and not bound to record the deeds, &c. till the fees are
secured,

—Where paid to the deceased clerk, they may be recovered
(as small debts,) from his executors,
    Fees to coroners or constables for summoning a jury
of inquest,
    Fees allowed to the registers of the land office for
continuing the Index for future grants, &c.
    Fees to registers of wills for taking probats of accounts,
—To justices and clerks for the acknowledgment
and recording of contracts for hiring or renting stoves,
—To county clerks, on chancery proceedings,
—To clerks and registers under the act concerning
judicial proceedings, records, &c.

    Provision for the collection of fees in case of the death
of a sheriff between the 1st of January and 1st of March,
and before the 1st of October in any year,
    Fees to the registers to be appointed concerning German
or Swiss emigrants, and to the county clerks,

    Fees to justices of the peace and to constables, in
the city of Baltimore,

    The estates of such persons as destroy their own
lives shall descend or vest as in case of natural death,

    Every commander of a vessel convicted of wilfully
importing from any foreign country any felon, &c. to
be sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary not less
than 1 nor more than 5 years,
    Any person before condemned to labour as a criminal,
and escaping, and found in the state, to be deemed
a fugitive felon, and on conviction, by record from another
state, to be confined in the penitentiary during
the residue of his term, but if demanded by the other
state, to be delivered up,

    If plainly expressed in the warrant as the cause of
commitment, the person not entitled to a writ of Habeas
Corpus,
—If charged to have been committed in any other
of the United States or the territories thereof, the
prisoners to be delivered up on demand,

  1809      138    8

 ——      169

  1810      106
 ——      126

  1811        57
  1812        32
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  1813      102    5

 ——        —    6
 

  1816      119    2
                          3

 ——        —    3

 ——      142

 ——      184    3
 ——      203    6

 ——      210    2
  1817      111

 ——      119    4
                        10

 ——      199

 ——      226    3
                        11

  1818      209    4
                          5

  1809      138  10
 
 

 ——        —    7
 
 
 
 

 ——        — —
 

 ——      125    1
 

 ——        —    5