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COSTS AND PEES. [ART. 63.

award execution; and no execution issued on any judgment rendered
under this or the preceding section shall be stayed by writ of error,
supersedeas, injunction or appeal.

Id s 52
1788, c. 31
Power to collect
fees within one
year after close
of his term.

47. Any sheriff whose term has expired, shall have the same
power to collect his own fees or any officers' fees previously placed
in his hands for collection for one year thereafter, that he had during
the time he was sheriff, and may distrain or execute for the same in
the same manner as if his commission had not expired.

Id s 53
1824, c 202, ss 2.
4, 1840, c 216, s,
4, 1842, c 272,
s. 3.
When his ad-
ministrator may
collect

48. If any sheriff shall die, his administrator may collect all
fees placed in the hands of such sheriff for collection, in the same
manner and by the same means as said sheriff might have done in
his lifetime; provided, the power to execute or distrain for such
fees shall not extend beyond two years after the date of his letters,

Limitation.

and such fees shall be applied to the payment of officers' fees duei

How collections
applied.

from the sheriff, and not applied to any other purpose until such
officers' fees are paid.

Id s 54.
1715, c 46, s 6.
Penalty for dis-
training, where
fees have been
paid.

49. No sheriff shall levy a distress or execution for officers'
fees, if the person from whom such fees are claimed shall produce
the former sheriff's receipt, or otherwise make it appear that the
said fees have been paid, under a penalty of fifty dollars for each
offence.