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ARTICLE 24.

COSTS.¹

	1. What county liable for, in removed	7. Party acquitted not liable for; excep-
	cases.	tion in Baltimore City.
	2. Clerks to keep full account of.	8. Equitable plaintiff liable for.
	3. Costs in county where case tried, first	9. Non-resident plaintiff or a resident as-
	payable.	signee of non-resident plaintiff may
	4. County commissioners to levy for.	be required by defendant to give
	5. Clerks to make annual returns of;	security for costs.
	penalty.	10. Cost of surety bonds.
	6. Sees. 1-5 applicable to Baltimore City.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 1. 1912, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1852, ch. 169, sec. 1. 1854,

ch. 269, sec. 1.

1. The costs and expenses incident to the trial of actions, issues and
presentments removed from one county to another, which are properly
chargeable to the county, shall be borne and paid by the county from
which the same are removed.

This section means that all costs and expenses incurred during the trial of a removed
case or occasioned by such trial, shall be paid by the county where case originated. This
includes cost of meals furnished jurors and bailiff haying jurors in charge. Allegany
County v. Howard County, 57 Md. 394.

The per diem of the jury (whether on special panel or not) and of sheriff, bailiff
or other subordinate officials necessary to the court, come under purview of this sec-
tion. Howard County v. Frederick County, 30 Md. 434.

Act of 1854, ch. 269, compared with local act of 1852, ch. 315. Purpose of former.
Baltimore City v. Baltimore County, 19 Md. 560.

For a case involving act 1823, ch. 67, see Price v. State, 8 Gill, 312.

Cited but not construed in Baltimore v. Libowitz, 159 Md. 29.

See art. 75, sec. 115.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 2. 1912, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1888, sec. 2. 1852, ch. 169, sec. 2.

1854, ch. 269, sec. 2.

2. The clerks of the several courts to which such cases may be removed
shall make and keep a full and accurate account of the said costs and
expenses, and shall certify and return the same as well to the county com-
missioners of the county where said cases originated as to the county com-
missioners of the county where the same were tried, setting forth in said
return the names of the several parties to whom said costs and expenses
are due, the several amounts thereof, and in what county said parties
respectively reside.

The accounts which clerks are required to keep and certify, are of costs and ex-
penses incident to trials of all actions, etc., removed from one county to another which
are properly chargeable to the county; such as are common to all counties of the
state. Baltimore City v. Baltimore County, 19 Md. 561.

Cited but not construed in Howard County v. Frederick County, 30 Md. 434.

See art. 17, sec. 48.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 3. 1912, sec. 3. 1904, sec. 3. 1888, sec. 3. 1854, ch. 269, sec. 3.

3. So much of the said costs and expenses as are due to persons resi-
dent in tEe county where said cases are tried or removed to shall first be

¹ See art. 3, sec. 45, Md. Constitution.