SHERIFFS 3189

An. Code, 1924, sec. 23. 1912, sec. 23. 1904, sec. 23. 1888, sec. 22. 1840, ch. 216.

1842, ch. 272, sec. 2.

23. On application by the person for whose use such process may have
issued, the clerk or register shall issue such process as he might have
issued if the return had been made by the deceased sheriff; and the same
may be issued before or after the return day named in the process in the
hands of such deceased sheriff; or if the executor shall neglect or refuse
to make the return as aforesaid, the plaintiff may issue a duplicate or new
writ, as provided in the following section.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 24. 1912, sec. 24. 1904, sec. 24. 1888, sec. 23. 1813, ch. 102, sec. 6.
1823, ch. 180. 1840, ch. 216, sec. 3. 1845, ch. 123, sec. 1.

24. If any sheriff shall take into possession any goods or chattels,
lands or tenements, by virtue of any writ of execution and shall remove
out of the county or Baltimore City wherein he acted as sheriff before
the return day of such execution, or without having made any return
thereof, the plaintiff, or his representative, before the return day, may ob-
tain a duplicate of such writ of execution, or after the return day, a new
writ of execution, directed to the sheriff or some coroner of the county or
city, for the time being, as the case may require; under which duplicate
or new writ of execution such sheriff or coroner may seize and take into
his possession the goods or chattels, lands or tenements seized and taken
by the sheriff who shall have so removed and sell the same as in other
executions, and shall be entitled to the whole poundage fees to the ex-
clusion of the sheriff so removing.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 25. 1912, sec. 25. 1904, sec. 25. 1888, sec. 24. 1829, ch. 39.

25. If any sheriff shall take any goods, chattels, lands or tenements
in virtue of any execution and shall die, resign or remove from the county
"or Baltimore City before the same are sold, and the goods, chattels, lands
or tenements shall be insufficiently or informally described in the sched-
ule returned by such sheriff, the court from which such execution issued
or the judge thereof during the recess shall order the schedule and return
of any such sheriff to be amended so as to describe with sufficient cer-
tainty the property purporting to be taken in virtue of such writ.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 26. 1912, sec. 26. 1904, sec. 26. 1888, sec. 25. 1813, ch. 102, sec. 4.

26. If any sheriff shall make sale of any lands or tenements and shall
die without executing a deed of conveyance to the purchaser, the court out
of which the execution issued under which the lands were sold may, on
the application of the purchaser or his legal representative order and direct
the sheriff for the time being, or some one of the coroners (as the case may
be), of the county or Baltimore City in which the lands or tenements lie,
to execute a deed of conveyance to the purchaser or his legal representative.
This section shall apply to all officers making sales under executions.

Execution of Death Penalty.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 27. 1912, sec. 28. 1904, sec. 28. 1888, sec. 27. 1795, ch. 82, sec. 1.

1882, ch. 403.

27. The sheriff shall execute the sentence of death pronounced against
any criminal by the judgment of any court of this State whenever he is
authorized to do so by the warrant of the governor, and it shall be the