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For levying attachments for contempt ........................$ 75

For serving writ of replevin and return....................... 45

For serving warrant for distraint............................. 25

For summoning and swearing appraisers on distress for rent, and

in replevin, each appraiser............................... 25

For serving an attachment in the hands of each garnishee......... 50

For killing dog found killing sheep, to be paid by the owner of the
dog, in Caroline, Cecil, Howard, Dorchester, Wicomico and
Worcester ............................................ 4 00

In other counties .............................. 1 00

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 attachment 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 entering
any enclosure and destroying property therein in the limits of
the city of Baltimore or within four miles thereof.............. 1 00

Constables appointed by mayor and city council of Baltimore held entitled to
compensation in accordance with this section and secs. 16 and 18, since act 1912,
ch. 823, providing a "People's Court" for Baltimore City was void in so far as it
attempted to substitute salaries for constables in place of fees. Levin v. Hewes,
118 Md. 648.

As to "constables," see art. 20; and see notes to art. 20, sec. 4, and to sec. 12 (this
article).

An. Code, 1924, sec. 16. 1912, sec. 15. 1904, sec. 15. 1888, sec. 15. 1822, ch. 143. 1843,

ch. 129. 1805, ch. 67.

16. 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.
See notes to art. 36, sec. 15, and to art. 20, sec. 4.

Coroners and Coroners' Inquests.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 17. 1912, sec. 16. 1904, sec. 16. 1888, sec. 16. 1779, ch. 25, sec. 5.

17. Every coroner shall be entitled to demand and receive the follow-
ing 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, otherwise to be
levied by the county commissioners of the county where such ac-
cident 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 defendant
on all process as to the sheriff and no more.........

Department of Post Mortem Examiners created in place, of coroners. See art. 22.
See notes to sec. 12.