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filed within ninety days after the first day of January in any
year, it shall, in addition to the provisions hereinbefore required,
be so conditioned as to make the obligors in such bond responsible
also for all official acts of said sheriff, committed or done by him
from the said first day of January up to the date of the filing of
the said bond, as well as thereafter.

Service of Process, Civil and Criminal, and Proceedings
In Cases of Failure to make due Return.

F. G. L., (1860,) art. 88, sec. 8. 1785, ch. 72, sec. 23. 1794, ch. 54, sec. 1.
1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 15, sec. 14. 1817, ch. 139, sec. 6.

5. All writs and process shall be directed to the sheriff, unless
he is disqualified, or except in cases where by law the writ or
process may be directed to another officer.
Johnson p. Foran, 58 Md. 149.

Ibid. sec. 9. 1817, ch. 139, sec. 6.

6. He shall serve and return all writs and process directed to
him according to the command contained therein.

Hayes v Lusby, 5 H & J. 485. Scott v. Bruce, 2 H. & G 262. Hanson v.
Barnes' Lessee, 3 G. & J. 359. Turner v. Walker, 3 G. & J. 377. Naylor v.
Semmes, 4 G & J. 273. State v. Lawson, 2 Gill, 62. Moreland v Bowling,
3 Gill, 500. Nelson v Turner, 2 Md. Ch Dec. 73. Keedy v. Newcomer, 1
Md 244. Gaither v Martin, 3 Md. 146. Manahan v Sammon, 3 Md. 463.
Elliott v. Knott, 14 Md. 121. Johnson v. Foran, 58 Md. 149.

Ibid sec. 11. 1780, ch. 10, sec 2. 1872, ch 433.

7. He or his deputy, when he arrests a person on a writ for
any criminal offence, not punishable by confinement in the peni-
tentiary, may take a bail-bond from the person so arrested, with
security to be by him approved, and in a penalty not exceeding
three hundred dollars, except in those csses where a specific fine
or penalty is prescribed for the commission of the offence, in
which cases the penalty of the bond shall be the highest penalty
or fine fixed by the law, with condition that the person so arrested
shall appear in court on the day the said writ is returnable, and
attend the court from day to day, and not depart therefrom with-
out the leave of the said court; and if the person so arrested
cannot give bail-bond, he shall be taken before a justice of the
peace, to be dealt with according to law.