FEES OF OFFICERS 1629

For swearing chain carriers, every oath.......................$ .20,

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 goo'ds 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

Commissions collected by a sheriff based on fees and costs due state's attorney
and clerk of criminal court of Baltimore, were authorized by this section and required
to be turned over to the state. Green v. State, 122 Md. 296.

For service of all process the sheriff is entitled to have his fees taxed as part of the
coste. Deale v. Estep, 3 Bl. 437.

Poundage fees due sheriff may, after the return of writ, be collected as other officers'
fees, in virtue of act of 1779, ch. 25, and its supplement. Hall v. Belt, 8 G. & J. 477.

As to compensation of sheriff for services at elections, see art. 33, sec. 162.

As to what poundage fees may be recovered by the sheriff, and by whom they are
payable, see Howard v. Levy Court, 1 H. & J. 566.

See secs. 12 and 30, and notes.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 31. 1912, sec. 29. 1904, sec. 29. 1888, sec. 29. 1790, ch. 59, sec. 2.

1933, ch. 177. 1939, ch. 456.

30. 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 and the Sheriff of Baltimore County shall receive for his services