ART. 24] COSTS. 759

ARTICLE XXIV.

COSTS.

1. What county liable for, In removed cases. 2. Clerks to keep full account of. 3. Costs in county where case tried, first payable. 4. County commissioners to levy for. 5. Clerks to make annual returns of; penalty. 6. Sections 1-5 applicable to Baltimore city.

7. Party acquitted not liable for; ex- ception in Baltimore city. 8. Equitable plaintiff liable for. 9. Non-resident plaintiff or a resident assignee of non-resident plaintiff may be required by defendant to give security for costs. 10. Cost of surety bonds.

1904, art. 24, sec. 1. 1888, art. 24, sec. 1. 1860, art. 27, sec. 1. 1852, ch. 169, see. 1.

1854, ch. 269, sec. 1.

1. The costs and expenses incident to the trial of actions, issues and
presentments removed from one county to another, which are properly
chargeable to the county, shall be borne and paid by the county from
which the same are removed.

This section means that all costs and expenses incurred during the trial
of a removed case or occasioned by such trial, shall be paid by the county
where the case originated. This includes the cost of meals furnished the
jurors and to the bailiff having the Jurors in charge. Allegany County v.
Howard County, 57 Md. 394.

The per diem of the jury (whether on the special panel or not) and of
the sheriff, bailiff or other subordinate officials necessary to the court, come
under the purview of this section. Howard County v. Frederick County, 30
Md. 434.

The act of 1854, ch. 269, compared with the local act of 1852, ch. 315. Pur-
pose of the former. Baltimore City v. Baltimore County, 19 Md. 560.

For a case involving the act of 1823, ch. 67, see Price v. State, 8 Gill, 312.
See art. 75, sec. 108.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1888, art. 24, sec. 2. 1860, art. 27, sec. 2. 1852, ch, 169,
sec. 2. 1854, ch. 269, sec. 2.

2. The clerks of the several courts to which such cases may be
removed shall make and keep a full and accurate account of the said
costs and expenses, and shall certify and return the same as well to the
county commissioners of the county where said cases originated as to
the county commissioners of the county where the same were tried,
setting forth in said return the names of the several parties to 'whom
said costs and expenses are due, the several amounts thereof, and in
what county said parties respectively reside.

The accounts which the clerks are required to keep and certify, are of the
costs and expenses incident to the trials of all actions, etc., removed from
one county to another which are properly chargeable to the county; such
as are common to all counties of the state. Baltimore City v. Baltimore
County, 19 Md. 561.

Cited but not construed in Howard County v. Frederick County, 30 Md, 434.
See art. 17, sec. 37.