ART. 61.] SHERIFFS. 549

DEED OF LAND SOLD BY SHERIFF UNDER JUSTICE'S EXECUTION.
31. Effect of deed by sheriff of land sold under execution from justice

VENDITIONI EXPONAS.
32 Venditioni exponas.

CRIMINAL PROCESS.

33 May take bail-bond, when, penalty of bond 84 How to be taken and returned

35 Amercement, judgment. 36. Imposing of amercements.

CUSTODY OF PRISONERS.

37 To keep prisoners 38 To provide food, board and medicine for prisoners , expense how paid.

39 To receive United States prisoners pay 40 Removal of convicts to penitentiary.

EXECUTING DEATH WARRANT.
41 To execute sentence of death.

TINES AND PENALTIES.

42 When answerable for fines, penalties, and forfeitures 43 May require State's attorney to issue exe- cution for same

44 Executions, when returnable 45. Sheriff to pay fines, etc , to treasurer , part to informer 46 Costs on forfeited recognizance

OATHS OF OFFICE AND BOND.
1. Every sheriff elected shall, within thirty days after his com- mission has been received by the clerk of his county or city, make the declaration of belief in the existence of God required by the Constitution, and also take the oaths therein prescribed before such clerks.	Art. 88, s 1 Decl Rights, art 37. 1852, c 172, s 5 ; 1854, c 18, B 9. When to take oath of office 15 Md 379
2. He shall also, before he acts as such, give bond to the State of Maryland in the penalty of twenty-five thousand dollars, with security to be approved by two judges of the Orphans' Court, or the judge of the Circuit Court for his county, if he be elected for a county, or any two judges of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore City, or the judge of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, if he be elected for said city, with condition that he shall well and faithfully execute the office of sheriff of ———— county, or the city of Baltimore, in all things appertaining thereto, and shall well and truly perform all the duties required by law to be by him performed.	Id s 2. 1794, c 54, s 8 Bond 46 Md 190, 116 & J 382, 18 Howard, 336.
3. He shall give such bond in each year of his sheriffalty before the first day of January in each year; and the bond shall be recorded by the clerk administering the oath of office.	Id s 3 1794, c 54, s 8. Yearly bond to be recorded 6 H & J. 96.
4. If any sheriff in office, prior to the first day of any January last past, shall have failed at any time heretofore to give and offer for record the bond in the preceding section required, within ninety days after the said first day of January last past of his sheriffalty, it shall be the duty of the clerks of the Circuit Courts of the respect-	1867, c. 814 Failure to give bond.
ive counties, or of the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, as the case may be, to give notice forthwith of such failure to the	Notice to be given governor. His duty.