1118 FEES OF OFFICERS. [ART. 36

For serving scire facias and return .......$ 40

For levying fieri facias and return ....... 20

For delivering a person committed over to the jailor,
seventy-five cents, and five cents per mile for 'every
mile he may have to travel and the actual necessary
traveling expenses of each prisoner.
For summoning jury on inquest, each juror .... 15

For levying attachments for contempt ...... 75

For serving writ of replevin and return ..... 45

For serving warrant for distraint ........ 25

For summoning and swearing appraisers on distress for

rent, and in replevin, each appraiser ...... 25

For serving an attachment in the hands of each gar-
nishee ................. 60

For killing dog found killing sheep, to be paid by the
owner of the dog, in Caroline, Cecil, Howard, Dor-
chester, Wicomico and Worcester ....... 4 00

In other counties ......... 1 00

For poundage fees on any distraint, replevin, attach-
ment or fieri facias, eight per cent, on the first twenty-
five dollars and three per cent, on the residue; but
if the defendant shall supersede the judgment on
which the execution or attachment shall have issued
within four days after the same shall have been levied
or served, the constable shall only be entitled to
receive one-half of said poundage fees .....

For arresting any person charged with a misdemeanor
for entering any enclosure and destroying property
therein in the limits of the city of Baltimore or
within four miles thereof.......... 1 00

1888, art. 36, sec. 15. 1860, art. 38, sec. 13. 1822, ch. 143. 1843, ch. 129.

1805, ch. 67.

15. The county commissioners in the several counties and
the mayor and city council of Baltimore shall levy on the
assessable property of their respective counties or the said
city the amount of fees that the constables of the several
counties or the said city are entitled to receive for executing
criminal business; provided, that nothing contained in this
section shall exempt any criminal from paying the cost of his
arrest if he shall be of sufficient ability to do so.