1158 PLEADINGS, PRACTICE AND PROCESS AT LAW. [ART. 76.

pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars for every refusal or neglect,
for the use of the State.

F. G. L., (1860,) art. 75, sec. 108. 1817, ch. 139, sec. 4.

147. The expense of postage incurred by the respective clerksr
and a reasonable compensation for their services in the transmis-
sion, delivery, and receipt of process from one county to another,
shall be allowed to them by the county commissioners of their
respective counties, and mayor and city council of Baltimore.

Ibid. sec. 109. 1817, ch. 139.

148. Any process directed to another county instead of being
sent by mail as hereinbefore directed, may be sent by any person,
and upon proof of the delivery of the same to the sheriff or other
officer to the satisfaction of the court from which the same was
issued, such delivery shall have the same effect to charge the
sheriff or other officer as if delivered under the provisions of the
preceding sections.

Ibid. sec. 110. 1841, ch. 109.

149. In all cases where there is no coroner in a county, the
plaintiff may file his declaration against the sheriff and his securi-
ties, or against the person who is for the time the sheriff, when
the suit is against him on his individual account, and have a copy
thereof set up at the court house door at least ten days before the
sitting of the court in which the suit is brought, and if no appear-
ance by the defendant before the first three days of the term be
made, judgment shall be entered up against them; provided, that
the plaintiff shall make affidavit of the truth of the demand; and if
the State shall be plaintiff in its own right, then a statement of
the comptroller in his own handwriting shall be evidence of the
amount due the State; but no execution shall issue on such,
judgment until twelve months after said third day of the term.

Ibid. sec. 111. 1794, ch. 54, sec. 5. 1843, ch. 271.

150. When the sheriff is a party to or interested in any suit
or proceeding in any court so as to be disqualified from serving
process, and there is no coroner duly qualified to serve such
process, the judge of the court in which such suit or proceeding;