1112 FEES OF OFFICERS—EXECUTION. [ART. 36

1888, art. 36, sec. 1. 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.

Ibid sec. 2. 1870, Ch. 441. 1874, ch. 377. 1876, ch. 216. 1892, ch. 91.

1896, ch. 409.

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; and no charge for
officers' fees shall be paid or allowed by the county commis-
sioners aforesaid in any criminal case where jurisdiction to
try, hear and determine the matter charged against the party
accused has been conferred by law upon justices of the peace,
but the county commissioners may levy or pay to the officers
performing service in such cases such compensation as they in
their discretion may deem right and proper. This section
shall apply only to the counties of Caroline, Kent, Queen
Anne's, Talbot, Prince George's, Charles and Harford.
Robey v. Prince George's Co., 92 Md. 157.

Execution for Fees.

Ibid sec. 3. 1860, art. 38, 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. 4. 1860, art. 38, 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 than are allowed by this article, he shall for each offense
forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars and
not less than twenty dollars, to be recovered by indictment in