ART. 81.] TAX ON OFFICIAL COMMISSIONS. 1249

Tax on Official Commissions.

1862, ch. 282. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 138. 1878, ch. 23.

127. When then commissions are delivered to them, the fol-
lowing officers shall respectively pay to the clerk from whom they
receive the same, the sums following, to wit: The judges of each of
the circuit courts for the several counties, fifty dollars; the judge of
the superior court, of the court of common pleas, of the circuit court,
of the Baltimore city court, and of the criminal court of the city of
Baltimore, each fifty dollars; the judges of the court of appeals,
each fifty dollars; the sheriff of Baltimore city, three hundred dol-
lars ; the sheriff of Baltimore county, Frederick county and Wash-
ington county, each one hundred dollars; the sheriff of Allegany
county, seventy-five dollars; the sheriff of Carroll county, Harford
county, Dorchester county, Anne Arundel county, Worcester
county, Somerset county, Cecil county and Prince George's
county, each forty dollars; the sheriff of Howard county, thirty
dollars; the sheriff of Caroline county, Montgomery county,
Talbot county, Charles county, Queen Anne's county, Calvert
county, Garrett county, Kent county, Wicomico county and St.
Mary's county, each twenty dollars; each judge of the orphans'
court of Baltimore city, fifty dollars, each judge of the orphans'
court in the several counties, ten dollars; each justice of the peace
and constable in the State, two dollars; the tobacco inspectors,
each fifty dollars; the weigher of live stock, fifty dollars; the
weighers of grain, hay and straw, each ten dollars; each notary
public in the city of Baltimore, the sum of twenty dollars; the
clerk of the circuit court of Baltimore city, the clerk of the court
of common pleas, the clerk of the city court, and the clerk of the
criminal court of Baltimore city, each two hundred dollars; the
register of wills of the city of Baltimore, two hundred dollars;
the register of wills for Baltimore county, one hundred and fifty
dollars; the register of wills of Frederick county, one hundred
dollars; the register of wills of Washington county, seventy-five
dollars; the register of wills of Allegany county, Carroll county,
Harford county, Kent county, Dorchester county, Anne Arundel
county, Worcester county, Somerset county, Cecil county and
Prince George's county, each fifty dollars; the register of wills
of Howard county, Caroline county, Montgomery county, Talbot
county, Charles county, Queen Anne's county, Calvert county,
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