ART. 36] SHERIFFS—SURVEYORS. 1127

For returning a writ of inquiry of damages . . . . $1 25

For empanelling a jury thereon ........ 3 00

For swearing the same, each ......... 15

For attendance, per day ........... 1 25

For delivering commissions to supervisors of roads, to

be paid by the county, each ......... 50

For transfer of stock under execution ...... 1 00

For summoning appraisers in cases of distress for rent

and swearing them, each .......... 20

For serving an execution .......... 15

1888, art. 36, sec. 29. 1860. art. 38, sec 28. 1790, ch. 59, sec. 2.

29. The sheriff shall have as poundage fees for levying on
execution at the rate of seven and a half per cent, on the first
twenty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents, and at the rate of
three per cent, on the residue, but if execution be laid on any
interest in lands only one-half of the poundage fees shall be
charged, and if laid upon lands and the lands be not sold by
the sheriff he shall charge only one-fourth of the poundage
fees aforesaid.

Fisher v. Beatty, 3 H. & McH. 148. Stewart v. Dorsey's Ex'x, 3 H. &
McH. 401 State v. Duvall, 4 H. & McH. 4. Maddox v. Cranch, 4 H. & McH.
344. Howard v Levy Court, 1 H. & J. 558. Hall v. Belt. 8 G. & J. 470.
Gurley v. Lee, 11 G. & J 395. Deale v. Estep, 3 Bl 433. The Cape Sable
Co.'s Case, 3 Bl. 624. Gilmor v Brien, 1 Md. Ch. Dec. 40. Eakle v. Smith,
24 Md. 362.

Surveyors.

Ibid. sec. 30. 1860, art. 38, sec. 29. 1849, ch. 549, sec. 1.

30. The surveyors of the several counties and the city of
Baltimore shall each be entitled to charge for his individual
services, under warrant of survey or re-survey directed from
the land office, under- orders or warrants of re-survey directed
from the courts of law, and under orders from courts of equity
a per diem of four dollars for each day he may necessarily be
engaged in performing the duty the said orders and warrants
enjoin on the said surveyors, and when the same shall be
required by the person for whom the services shall be rendered
shall state his account of such services under oath.