ART. 81.] EXECUTION AGAINST DEBTORS. 1233

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 81, sec. 83. 1812, ch. 191, sec. 36. 1831, ch. 68, sec. 8.
1862, ch. 236. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 73.

74. The attorney prosecuting such action shall be allowed the
usual commissions for such services; but no payment of any
money due the State, either in suit or on judgment, shall be valid
and effectual unless made to the State's attorney or to the
treasurer, or such person as shall have been specially appointed
and authorized by him to receive the same, or unless made to such,
sheriff, coroner or elisor, as may be authorized to receive the same
by virtue of any execution issued to enforce the payment thereof.
No attorney, other than the State's attorney prosecuting such
action, as provided for in this section, shall receive any part of
the money thus sued for, except the fees allowed by law, under a
penalty of a fine of not less than five hundred dollars, nor more
than five thousand dollars, to be recovered as other fines and for-
feitures are recovered.

Ibid, sec 84. 1841, ch. 23, sec. 55. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 74.

75. The comptroller shall make all just allowances to collectors
for insolvencies or removals, upon certificates of the county com-
missioners or appeal tax court that such allowances are just.

Execution Against Debtors to the State.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 81, sec. 85. 1845, ch. 196, sec. 2. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 75.

76. Whenever the State shall have a judgment 'or decree
against a debtor or his securities, and money may be ordered to
be levied by the county commissioners of any county, or the
mayor and city council of Baltimore, for the benefit of such
debtor, or any one of bis sureties, the State's attorney for the
county may order an attachment to be issued by the clerk of the
court where such judgment or decree was passed, against the
goods, chattels, rights and credits, lands and tenements of such
debtor and his sureties, which may be laid in the hands of the
county commissioners, or their clerk, or any collector of said
county, or any or all of them, in the discretion of the State's
attorney; and the proceedings on such attachments shall in all
respects be the same as in other attachments on judgments or
decrees.
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