362 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4,

1861, ch. 53.

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

WITNESSES, DOCKET ENTRIES AND RECORDS.

1878, ch 28.

238. Witnesses attending any of the courts of Baltimore city,
except the criminal court of Baltimore, shall be entitled to fifty
cents a day, and in the criminal court shall not be entitled to
said allowance, except by the express order of the court, and only
in such cases as the court in its discretion may deem proper.

1884, ch. 23.

239. In any suit now depending, or hereafter to depend, in
any court in the city of Baltimore, wherein a transcript of the
record of any cause in any other court in the city of Baltimore
might be offered in evidence, it shall be sufficient to produce the
docket entries and original papers and proceedings in said last
mentioned cause, or the record book in which the same have been
recorded, if required by law to be recorded, and actually recorded,
and offer the same in evidence; and the same, when so produced
and offered in evidence, shall have the same effect, to all intents
and purposes, as a transcript of the record thereof, under the seal
of the court wherein the same are; and such production may be
had by any party to a suit upon a subpoena duces tecum issued to
the clerk of the court wherein such docket entries, original papers
and proceedings may be.

Kilbourn v. Goldsmith, 46 Md. 289.

COSTS.
1883, ch. 354.

240. In all actions at law for wrongs, independent of con-
tracts, in any of the courts of Baltimore city, where the verdict
or inquisition of damages after default made, shall be for a sum
less than fifty dollars, the costs shall be adjudged to the defend-
ant, unless the court shall otherwise determine; but the court,
before allowing costs to the plaintiff in such case, shall be satisfied