ART. 19.] LANDLORD AND TENANT. 1747

cents; for every release, twenty-five cents; for taking recogni-
zances in each case reported to the circuit court, twenty-five cents
each; for each attachment for contempt, twenty-five cents.

1884, ch. 510.

56. The aforesaid fees of said constables and justices for said
counties shall be taxed against and paid by the party against whom
judgment shall be rendered, unless he or she be discharged there-
from by due course of law; if such party against whom judg-
ment, is rendered is unable to pay the same, such fees shall be
paid by the county wherein said judgment was rendered; and all
fines and penalties received by any justice under the provisions
of section 54, shall be accounted for and wholly paid without
abatement or deduction therefrom by such justice, to the county
commissioners of the county wherein they are collected, for the
use of said county; and no part of any fine or penalty enforced or
collected under said section shall be paid to any informer.

LANDLORD AND TENANT.

1876, ch 384. 1888, ch 182.

57. In all cases of renting land in St. Mary's, Prince George's,
Charles, Calvert and Worcester counties, wherein a share of
the growing crops shall be reserved as rent, or wherein advances
by the landlord shall be made upon the faith of the crops to be
grown, said rent reserved and such advances made shall be a lien
on such crops, which shall not be diverted by any sale made
thereof by the tenant or by any administrator of a deceased
tenant, or by the assignment of the tenant in insolvency, or by
the process of law issued against the tenant; provided, that at the
time of said renting, the contract under and by which said ad-
vances are to be made, shall be reduced to writing, duly executed
and attested by the said landlord and tenant.

1888, ch. 506.

58. In all cases where property distrained for rent in St.
Mary's county, is in the hands of any bailiff or agent of the
landlord, and the tenant shall go before a justice of the peace for
said county and confess judgment in favor of the landlord for
the amount of rent claimed and the costs of the distraint, and