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be not sold by the sheriff he shall charge only one-fourth of the
poundage fees aforesaid.

The nature of poundage fees; the mode of recovering them, and to what
extent they will be allowed. Cape Sable Co.'s Case, 3 Bl. 606. See also,
Howard v. Levy Court, 1 H. & J. 558.

How poundage fees are to be collected. Hall v. Belt, 8 G. & J. 470.

When the sheriff's claim for poundage fees is not defeated; irregular exe-
cution; execution stayed. Gurley v. Lee, 11 G. & J. 395.

As a rule, the defendant, and not the plaintiff, is liable for poundage fees.
They must be ascertained by the sheriff and demanded. Eakle v. Smith, 24
Md. 362. See also. Gilmor v. Brlen, 1 Md. Ch. 40; Gurley v. Lee, 11 G. & J.
395; Howard v. Levy Court, 1 H. & J. 558. But see Fisher v. Beatty, 3 H. &
McH. 148.

An agreement by an assignee of judgments, "to pny all legal costs arising
thereon," does not include poundage fees. Gilmor v. Brien, 1 Md. Ch. 40.

When an attorney Is liable to a sheriff for his poundage fees. If the land
seized is not liable to attachment, the sheriff is entitled to one-fourth of the
usual fees, to be paid by the party issuing the attachment. Maddox v.
Cranch, 4 H. & McH. 343.

The sheriff may recover his poundage fees in a suit instituted by the
state, although the execution has been countermanded by act of assembly.
Stewart v. Dorsey, 3 H. & McH. 401.

See sec. 28 and notes.

Surveyors.

1904, art. 36, sec. 30. 1888, art. 36. sec. 30. 1860. art. 3S, sec. 29. 1849, ch.

549, sec. 1.

30. The surveyors of the several counties and the city of Baltimore
shall each be entitled to charge for his individual services, under war-
rant of survey or re-survey directed from the land office, under orders
or warrants of re-survey directed from the courts of law, and under
orders from courts of equity a per diem of four dollars for each day
he may necessarily be engaged in performing the duty the said orders
and warrants enjoin on the said surveyors, and when the same shall
be required by the person for whom the services shall be rendered
shall state his account of such services under oath.
As to "surveyors," see art. 91.