FEES OF OFFICERS. 451

For an arrest on a warrant, and return, in criminal cases......... 1. 00

For serving duces tecum and return, for each witness summoned.... 75

For return on an attachment when mesne process................ 15

For all goods and chattels which any sheriff shall attach and take

into his possession or wherewith he shall be chargeable, the same

fees as on execution.
For returning a writ of replevin.............................. 15

The same fee for executing replevin as upon executions
The same fees for serving a withernam as upon replevin
Also the same fees on appraisement and sale of goods distrained and

sold for rent
For serving a writ of retorno habendo, and return.............. 1. 25

For serving writ of distringas, and return..................... 1. 25

For serving and return of elegit or liberate.................... 3. 00

For empaneling jury on elegit or extent....................... 3. 00

For swearing the same, each................................. 20

For serving writ of restitution and return...................... 2. 00

For summons in partition, for every person summoned, each return.. 75
For serving writ of partition, and return....................... 75

For empaneling jury thereon................................ 3. 00

For swearing the jury, each................................. 20

For attendance, per day.................................... 2. 00

For serving an attachment in partition, and return.............. 2. 00

For returning a writ of inquiry of damages.................... 2. 00

For empaneling a jury thereon.............................. 3. 00

For swearing the same, each................................. 20

For attendance, per day.................................... 2. 00

For delivering commissions to supervisors of roads, to be paid by

the county, each......................................... 50

For transfer of stock under execution......................... 1. 00

For summoning appraisers in cases of distress for rent and swearing

them, each............................................. 20

For serving an execution.................................... 15

An. Code, 1924, sec. 31. 1912, sec. 29. 1904, sec. 29. 18S8, sec. 29. 1790, ch. 50, sec. 2.

1933, ch. 177.

31. The sheriff shall have as poundage fees for levying an execution
at the rate of seven and a half per cent, on the first twenty-six dollars and
sixty-seven cents, and at the rate of three per cent, on the residue, but if
execution be laid on any interest in lands only one-half of the poundage
fees shall be charged, and if laid upon lands and the lands be not sold by
the sheriff he shall charge only one-fourth of the poundage fees aforesaid.
Provided, however, that in addition to the above fees, the sheriff of Balti-
more City shall receive for his services in serving each writ of fieri facias
a fee of one dollar and fifteen cents ($1. 15), and the clerk of the court
shall not issue said writ until the person, firm or corporation ordering the
issuance of the same shall pay said fee to said clerk, which fee shall be
paid to the sheriff when said writ is delivered to him.