708 FEES OF OFFICERS—EXCESSIVE FEES. [ART. 36.

24. Notary to give bond, bond in county; in city of Baltimore; penalty. 25. Statement under oath to accpm- pony payment. 26. Amount of fees exempt; in county; in city of Baltimore.

Register of Wills. 27. Fees of. Sheriffs. 28. Fees of. 29. Poundage fee for levying execu- tion. Surveyors, 30. Fees of

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 38, sec. 1. 1870, ch. 441. 1874, ch. 377.

1. All accounts for officers' fees shall be made out in a fair
and clear manner, and in words at length; and whenever any
person interested in them, or to whom the same shall be charged,
shall require a copy of such account, the several officers herein
named shall, in as short a time as may be convenient, give him.
an account of such charges in words at length.

Jamison v. State, 55 Md 103. Peter v. Prettyman, 62 Md. 572.

1870, ch. 441. 1874, ch 377. 1876, ch 216.

2. No account for officers' fees by any of the several officers
herein named, rendered for services to or in behalf of the
counties of this State in this section named, shall be allowed by
the county commissioners thereof until said account has been
submitted to and approved by the judges of the circuit court for
said county, or a majority thereof, as in accordance with the
provisions of this article. This section shall apply only to the
counties of Caroline, Kent, Talbot, Prince George's, Queen.
Anne's, Charles, Harford and Dorchester.

Execution for Fees.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 88, sec. 2. 1779, ch 25, sec. 11. 1822, ch. 219, sec. 2.

1861, ch. 55.

3. No officer, under the penalty of five hundred dollars, shall
send out his fees on execution more than once in every year,
between the first day of January and the first day of May; but
in Baltimore city any officer may send out his fees on execution,
at any time during the year.

Logan v. State. 39 Md. 177.

Ibid sec. 3 1852, ch 308, sec 3.

4. If any officer shall, by himself, his deputies, agents or
clerks, charge, receive, ask or demand any larger or greater fees.