ART. 87] REMOVAL OF CONVICTS——OFFICERS' FEES. 1955

Removal of Convicts to the Penitentiary.

1904, art. 87, sec. 29. 1888, art. 87, sec. 28. 1860, art. 88, sec. 32. 1809,

ch. 138, sec. 27.

29. Every person convicted in any court of this State and sentenced
to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary shall, as soon as possible
after conviction, be safely removed by the sheriff of the county where
such conviction took place and at the expense of such county to the
penitentiary; and every sheriff failing to comply with the provisions of
this section shall forfeit one thousand dollars.

A reasonable time must be allowed for the removal of convicts to the
penitentiary. Clifford v. State, 30 Md. 576.

Cited but not construed in Negro Hammond v. State, 14 Md. 148; Price
v. State, 8 Gill, 312.

Collection of Officers' Fees.

Ibid. sec. 30. 1888, art 87, sec. 29. 1860, art. 88, sec. 46. 1861, ch. 53.

1882, ch. 64.

30. 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,
registers of wills, surveyors and sheriffs. This section shall not apply
to Baltimore city or Harford county.

Poundage fees due the sheriff may. after the return of the writ, he col-
lected as other officers' fees under the act of 1779, ch. 25, and its supplement..
Officers' fees need not be put out for collection at any particular time. Hall
v. Belt 8 G. & J. 477. (See article 36, section 29).

As to the extension of time for the collection of fees, see art. 26, sec. 40,
et seq.

Ibid. sec. 31. 1888, art. 87, sec. 30. 1860, art. 88, sec. 47. 1861, ch. 53.

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

Ibid. sec. 32. 1888, art. 87, sec. 31. 1860, art. 88, sec. 48. 1779, ch. 25,
sec. 13. 1822, ch. 219, sec. 2.

32. 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 having previously delivered an account of fees;
provided that if any such absconding debtor shall give the sheriff good
and sufficient security for the payment of such officers' fees within sixty
days, the sheriff shall not sell his gooda or chattels.

Ibid. sec. 33. 1888, art. 87, sec. 32. 1860, art. 88, sec. 49. 1779,
ch. 25, sec. 17.

33. In all cases of distress or execution for officers' fees the sheriff
may sell the goods and chattels distrained or executed at public auction-