1290 SHERIFFS—REMOVAL OF CONVICTS. [ART. 87.

tion, then said sheriff shall procure some other physician of good
standing to attend and furnish him a certificate that the execution
was properly performed, and for said service said physician shall
receive the sum of fifteen dollars, to be paid by the county or Bal-
timore city where said execution takes pl ace (as the case may be); and
said sheriff shall return the execution of the sentence under said
warrant, verified by his oath, to the court which sentenced said
prisoner, together with said physician's certificate, which, with
said return, shall be recorded by the clerk among the proceedings
in the case.

Removal of Convicts to the Penitentiary.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 88, sec. 32. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 27.

28. Every person convicted in any court of this State, and sen-
tenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary, shall, as soon
as possible after conviction, be safely removed by the sheriff of
the county where such conviction took place, and at the expense,
of such county, to the penitentiary; and every sheriff failing to
comply with the provisions of this section shall forfeit one
thousand dollars.

Clifford v. State, 30 Md. 575.

Collection of Officers' Fees.

P. G. L., (1860,) art 88, sec. 46. 1861, ch. 53. 1882, ch. 64.

29. The sheriff shall collect all fees due to the following
officers which may be placed in his hands for collection, between
the first day of January and the first day of May in each year,
namely: attorneys, clerks of all the courts, commissioner of the
land office, coroners, criers, registers of wills, surveyors and
sheriffs. This section shall not apply to Baltimore city or Harford,
county.

Ibid sec 47. 1861, ch. 53.

30. He may distrain or execute the goods and chattels of any
person against whom any fees are placed in his hands for collec-
tion; provided, he has sixty days previously delivered to such,
person, or left at his place of abode an account of such fees.