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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 168.

AN ACT to authorize the Clerk of the Circuit

Court of Montgomery county to place certain fees

in the hands of the sheriffs of the several counties

of this State and the City of Baltimore for col-

lection.

WHEREAS, E. B. Prettyman, Clerk of the Circuit

Court for Montgomery county, has failed to place

Preamble.

his fees since June term, eighteen hundred and

sixty-eight, of said court, in the hands of the sheriffs

of the several counties of this State and the City of

Baltimore for collection ; therefore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

To place ac-
counts in hands

Maryland, That all fees due E. B. Prettyman, Clerk

of sherriffs.

of the Circuit Court for Montgomery county, which

have accrued since June term, eighteen hundred

and sixty-eight, of said court, shall De received and

collected by the sheriffs of the several counties of

this State and of the City of Baltimore, in the same

manner as fees due such officers have been hereto-

fore collected; and such sheriffs shall use and have

the same means of enforcing payment of and collect-

ing said fees, and be liable to the said E. B. Pretty-

man, clerk as aforesaid, or their official bonds given

at the time such fees are placed in their hands in the

manner now provided by the existing laws of this

State; provided, nothing in this act shall be so con-

structed as to prevent the said E. B. Prettyman,

clerk as aforesaid, from collecting said fees by war-

rant, suit or otherwise.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all said fees may

To accoant for

be placed in the hands of said sheriffs at any time

before the first day of March, in the year eighteen

hundred and seventy-five; and that said sheriff's

shall account for and pay over the same within nine

months from the time such fees shall be placed in

their hands for collection as aforesaid, and on failure

to collect and pay over the same within the time re-

quired by this act to the said E. B. Prettyman, the

official bonds given and approved as aforesaid of

such sheriffs, shall be liable to be put in suit at the

instance and for the use of the said E. B. Prettyman.