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CONST4BLES.

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ARTICLE XX.

CONSTABLES.

Qualification. 1. Declaration of belief and oath. 2. Official bond. 3. Additional, when to be appointed. Execution of Process and Collection of Debts. 4. To execute civil and criminal proc- ess from justices of the peace. 5. Penalty for neglect so to do. 6. To levy executions. 7. Authority within district; liability of bond. 8. Penalty for neglect to return execu- tion. 9. Remedy over by constable. 10. To serve distress. 11. Receipt for claims for collection. 12. Death of constable before making levy. 13. Death before making sale. 14. Poundage fees in this case. Suits on Bond and Remedies Against. 15. Bond of defaulting constable may be sued.

16. Certiticate of clerk as to securities. 17. Constable's receipt of claim prima facie. evidence against 'him. 18. Defenses of constable. 19. Suit on other bonds of constable. 20. Suit against constable for. money collected. 21. Excution without supersedeas on Judgments against. Police Duties of Constables. 22. They shall be sworn to grand Jury. 23. Shall visit suspected gambling places. 24. They shall arrest parties vending goods from place to place with- out license. 25. Shall inform agaiast non-residents retailing spirituous liquors. 26. May. upon complaint, inspect re- tailers' measures. 27. Shall deliver to sheriff persons committed to their custody.

Qualification.

1904, art. 20, sec. 1. 1888, art. 20, sec. 1. 1860, art. 23, sec. 1. 1852, ch. 172, sec. 5.

1854, ch. 18, sec. 9.

1. Every constable appointed shall, within thirty days after his
appointment, make the declaration of religious belief and take and
subscribe the oath prescribed by the constitution.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1888. art. 20, sec. 2. 1809, ch. 117, secs. 2, 3. 1835, ch. 201, sec. 16.
1835, ch. 342. 1854, ch. 148.

2. Every constable shall also, before he acts as such, give bond to
the State of Maryland, with good and sufficient security, to be approved

No constable may purchase any debt held by or due to a resident of his
county or city—art. 69, see. 11.
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