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ART. 21.] JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES. 1875
following fees: For issuing each State writ, twenty-five cents; for
summoning all the witnesses on both sides in any case, fifty cents;
for each trial, one dollar; for every commitment, twenty-five
cents; for every release, twenty-five cents; for taking recogni-
sances in each case reported to the circuit court, twenty-five cents
each; for each attachment for contempt, twenty-five cents.
1884, ch. 510.
120. 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 118, 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.
1886, ch. 355.
121. It shall not be lawful for any resident of Talbot county
to be sued before any justice of the peace of said county, out of
the election district in which he resides; provided, however, that
upon any canse of action within the jurisdiction of a justice of
the peace arising in said county, any resident may be sued before
a justice of the peace in the election district wherein the contract
was made and such cause of action did originate.
P. L, L., (1860,) art. 20, aec. 94.
122. A judgment of a justice of the peace for said county
shall be a lien on the lands of the defendant therein, in said
county, from the day on which a copy thereof is filed in the
office of the clerk of the circuit court for said county, and the
said clerk may issue execution thereon, as on judgments of said
court.
Ibid sec. 95.
123. The constables of said county while attending the circuit
court shall each be entitled to two dollars a day.
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