580 SHERIFFS. [ART. 87

ARTICLE LXXXVII.

SHERIFFS.

2. Bond of sheriff. Bond of sheriff
of Calvert county.

ISA. Returns of proceeds of sale by
sheriff. Ratification by court.
Appeal by party aggrieved.

1894, ch. 647.

2. He shall also, before he acts as such, give bond to the State
of Maryland in the penalty of twenty-five thousand dollars,
with security to be approved by two judges of the orphans'
court or the judge of the circuit court for his county, if he be
elected for a county, or any two judges of the Orphans' Court
of Baltimore city, or the judge of the Superior Court of Balti-
more city, if he be elected for said city, with condition that he
shall well and faithfully execute the office of sheriff of ————
county or the city of Baltimore, in all things appertaining
thereto, and shall well and truly perform all the duties required
by law to be by him performed; provided, that the sheriff
elected for Calvert county shall be required to give a bond in
the penalty of ten thousand dollars, and for no greater sum.

1894, ch. 61.

15 A. Any sheriff may make one or more returns of the pro-
ceeds of sale under any fieri facias, attachment or venditioni
exponas, where dispute is known to exist as to the distribution
of the proceeds of sale, to the circuit court for his county, or to
the court in Baltimore city out of which the process issued, and
the court may ratify one of the sheriff's returns, or may reject
all returns and remand the same to the sheriff for a further
return; provided, that any one aggrieved by the decision of the
court in ratifying any return may appeal to the Court of Appeals
as may now be done from any final decree or order in the nature
of a final decree, from a court of equity.