ART. 38.] FEES OF OFFICERS.

wit: For serving state warrant and return, seventy-
five cents; for serving search warrant, seventy -five
cents ; for serving summons in civil suit and return,
forty -five cents; for serving summons for witness
and return, each witness, twenty cents ; for serving
scire facias and return, forty cents ; for levying fieri
facias and return, twenty cents; for delivering a
person committed over to the jailor, seventy-five
cents, and five cents per mile for every mile he
may have to travel, and the actual necessary travel-
ing expenses of each prisoner ; for summoning jury
on inquest, each juror, fifteen cents; for levying
attachments for contempt, seventy -five cents; for
serving writ of replevin and return, forty-five cents ;
for serving warrant for distraint, twenty-five cents ;
for summoning and swearing appraisers on distress
for rent, and in replevin, each appraiser, twenty-five
cents; for serving an attachment in the hands of
each garnishee, fifty cents; for killing dog found
killing sheep, to be paid by the owner of the dog,
four dollars; 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 attach-
ment shall have issued, within four days after the
same shall have been levied or served, the consta-
ble 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, one dollar.

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13. The county commissioners in the several coun-
ties, and the mayor and city council of Baltimore
shall levy on the assessable property of their respec-
tive 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 busi-

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Levy for fees.

ness ; provided, that nothing contained in this section
shall exempt any criminal from paying the cost of

Proviso.