ART. 36] CORONERS. 995

For poundage fees on any distraint, replevin, attachment or
fieri facias, eight per cent, on the first twenty-five dollars
and three per cent, on the residue; but if the defendant
shall supersede the judgment on which the execution or attach-
ment shall have issued within four days after the same shall
have been levied or served, the constable shall only be entitled
to receive one-half of said poundage fees.

For arresting any person charged with a misdemeanor for enter-
ing any enclosure and destroying property therein in the
limits of the city of Baltimore or within four miles thereof... $1 00
As to "constables," see art. 20.

1904, art. 36, sec. 15. 1888, art. 36, sec. 15. 1860, art. 38, sec. 13. 1822, ch. 143.
1843, ch. 129. 1805, ch. 67.

15. The county commissioners in the several counties and the mayor
and city council of Baltimore shall levy on the assessable property of
their respective counties or the said city the amount of fees that the
constables of the several counties or the said city are entitled to receive
for executing criminal business; provided, that nothing contained in
this section shall exempt any criminal from paying the cost of his arrest
if he shall be of sufficient ability to do so.

Coroners and Coroners' Inquests.

Ibid. sec. 16. 1888, art. 36, sec. 16. 1860, art. 38, sec. 14.
1779, ch. 25, sec. 5.

16. Every coroner shall be entitled to demand and receive the fol-
lowing fees, to wit:

For viewing the body of any person or persons murdered or slain
or otherwise dead by misadventure, to be paid out of the
goods and chattels of the party so dead, if any there be, other-
wise to be levied by the county commissioners of the county
where such accident shall happen........................ $5 00

For arresting or summoning any sheriff sued or prosecuted in

any court and for taking security...................... 45

The same fees allowed wherein the sheriff is plaintiff or defend-
ant on all process as to the sheriff and no more.*
As to "coroners," see art. 22.

Ibid. sec. 17. 1888, art. 36, sec. 17. 1860, art. 38, sec. 15. 1816, ch. 142.

1894, ch. 309.

17. Each juror who may serve on a coroner's inquest shall be
entitled to one dollar; and the constable who may be directed by any
coroner or justice to summon such jury or the coroner, except in Bal-
timore city, if the jury be summoned by him, shall be entitled to fifteen
cents for each juror summoned, to be paid as above directed.*

*This section has been repealed as to Allegany county and sections enacted
in lieu thereof—see acts 1908, ch. 475, and 1910, ch. 37 (p. 483).