ART. 61. ] SHERIFFS.

sheriff or coroner may seize and take into his possession the goods
or chattels, lands or tenements, seized and taken by the removed
sheriff, and sell the same as in other executions, and shall be en-
titled to the whole poundage fees, to the exclusion of the sheriff so
removing.

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29. If any sheriff has taken any goods, chattels, lands, or tene-
ments, in virtue of any execution, and shall die, resign, or remove
from the county before the same are sold, and the goods, chattels,
lands, or tenements, shall be insufficiently or informally described
in the schedule 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 certainty the property purporting to be taken
in virtue of such writ.

Id s 27
1829, c 39.
When schedule
and return
amended.

30, If any sheriff shall make sale of any lands or tenements,
and shall die without executing a deed of conveyance to the pur-
chaser, 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
city in which the lands or tenements lie, to execute a deed of con-

Id s 28
1813, c 102, s 4.
Sheriff dying
after sales of
land, convey-
ance, how made.

veyance to the purchaser, or his legal representative; this to apply
to all officers making sales under executions.

DEED OF LAND SOLD BY SHERIFF UNDER JUSTICE'S EXECUTION.

Other officers.

31. Any deed made by a sheriff for any lands, or any estate, or
interest therein, sold by him under an execution, issued by a justice
of the peace, shall have the same effect as a deed made by a consta-
ble under similar circumstances.

VENDITIONI EXPONAS.

Id s 29.
1810, c 160,
1831, c. 290, s 4.
Effect of deeds
by sheriff of
lands sold under
execution from
justice.

32, If any sheriff shall have taken property in execution and
shall fail to make sale thereof for five years, or shall be in insolvent
circumstances, the person for whose use such execution was issued
may, in either case, have a venditioni exponas issued to the sheriff
for the time being.

CRIMINAL PROCESS.

Id s 30
1829, c 158, s 1.
Venditioni
exponas
47 Md 174.

33. He or his deputy, when he arrests a person on a writ for any
criminal offence, not punishable by confinement in the penitentiary,
may take a bail-bond from the person so arrested, with security to
be by him approved, and in a penalty not exceeding three hundred
dollars, except in those cases where a specific fine or penalty is pre-

1872, c 433
May take bail-
bond, when

scribed for the commission of the offence, in which cases the penalty
of the bond shall be the highest penalty or fine fixed by the law,
with condition that the person so arrested shall appear in court on
the day the said writ is returnable, and attend the court from day

Penalty of
bond.