1292 SHERIFFS—FINES AND PENALTIES. [ART. 87.

ately empanelled to try an issue whether the said sheriff be
chargeable with and liable to pay any and what sum of money
to the person so claiming and authorized to receive the same,
and the court shall pass judgment on the verdict of the jury as
in other cases, and award execution; and no execution issued on
any judgment rendered under this or the preceding section shall
be stayed by writ of error, supersedeas, injunction or appeal
State v. Tabler, 41 Md 236

P G L., (1860,) art. 88, sec 52. 1788, ch. 31.

35 Any sheriff whose term has expired shall have the same
power to collect his own fees or any officers' fees previously placed
in his hands for collection for one year thereafter, that he had
during the time he was sheriff, and may distrain or execute for
the same in the same manner as if his commission had not
expired.

Ibid. sec. 53. 1824, ch. 202, secs. 2-4. 1840, ch. 216, sec. 4. 1842,
ch 273, sec. 3

36. If any sheriff shall die, his administrator may collect all
fees placed in the hands of such sheriff for collection, in the same
manner and by the same means as said sheriff might have done
in his lifetime; provided, the power to execute or distrain for
such fees shall not extend beyond two years after the date of his
letters, and such fees shall be applied to the payment of officers'
fees due from the sheriff, and not applied to any other purpose
until such officers' fees are paid,

Ibid. sec. 54. 1715, ch. 46, sec. 6.

37. No sheriff shall levy a distress or execution for officers'
fees, if the person from whom such fees are claimed shall pro-
duce the former sheriff's receipt, or otherwise make it appear that
the said fees have been paid, under a penalty of fifty dollars for
each offence.

Fines and Penalties.

P. G. L , (1860,) art. 88, sec. 55. 1795, ch. 74, sec. 7.

38. The sheriff shall be answerable for all fines, penalties and
forfeitures imposed on the inhabitants of his county or of Balti-
more city by any court of record of this State, unless he can show
that the party on whom the same was imposed is insolvent.