1282 SHERIFFS—BOND. [ART. 87.

P. G. L , (1860,) art 88, sec. 2 1794, ch. 54, sec 8.

2. He shall also, before he acts as such, give bond to the State
of Maryland in the penalty of twenty-five thousand dollars, with
security to be approved by two judges of the orphans' court, or
the judge of the circuit court for his county, if he be elected for
a county, or any two judges of the orphans' court of Baltimore
city, or the judge of the superior court of Baltimore city, if he be
elected for said city, with condition that he shall well and
faithfully execute the office of sheriff of ———— county, or the
city of Baltimore, in all things appertaining thereto, and shall
well and truly perform all the duties required by law to be by
him performed.

Proprietary v Wright, 1 H & McH. 49 Kilty v Hammond, 3 H & McH.
149. Amos v Johnson, 3 H & McH 216 Beall v. Beck, 3 H & McH 242.
Mantz v. Collins, 4 H & McH 65. Hutcheson v Tilden, 4 H. & McH 279.
Merryman v. State, 5 H & J 423 Hewitt B State, 6 H. & J. 96. Roberts
v. Gibson, 6 H & J. 116 Naylor v. Semmes, 4 G & J 273 Keene v Thomp-
son, 4 G & J 463. Young v. State, 7 G & J. 253 State v. Turner, 8 G. & J.
125. Hall v Belt, 8 G & J. 470. State v Harrison, 9 G & J 15 Bruce v.

State, 11 G & J 382 State T Lawson, 2 Gill, 62 Yingling v. Hoppe, 9 Gill,
313. State v. Baden, 11 Md 317. M & C. C. Balto, v.State, 15 Md 379.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1794, ch 54, sec. 8.

3. He shall give such bond in each year of his sheriffalty
before the first day of January in each year; and the bond shall
be recorded by the clerk administering the oath of office.

Hewitt v. State, 6 H & J 96

Ibid, sec 4. 1794, ch 54, sec. 8. 1867, ch. 314.

4. If any sheriff in office prior to the first day of any January
next preceding, shall fail to give and offer for record the bond
required in the preceding section, within ninety days after the
said first day of January, it shall be the duty of the clerks of the
circuit courts for the respective counties, or of the clerk of the
superior court of Baltimore city, as the case may be, to give
notice forthwith of such failure to the governor of the State,
whose duty it shall be at once to require the attorney general to
institute the proper proceedings to vacate the office of said
sheriff, and upon said vacation, to appoint a successor until the
next general election. If the bond hereinbefore required, be