ART. 81] TAX ON OFFICIAL COMMISSIONS. 1843

now vested shall not be in any way diminished or released,
except as herein provided.

Davidson v. Clayland, 1 H. & J. 546. State v. Bank of Md., 6 G. & J 205.
Smith v. State, 5 Gill, 45. Jones v. Jones, 1 Bl. 443. Hodges v. Mullikin,
1 Bl. 503. Ridgely v. Iglehart, 3 Bl. 540. Green's Estate, 4 Md. Ch. 356.
State v. Mayor, etc., 10 Md. 515.

Tax on Official Commissions.

1888, art. 81, sec. 127. 1862, ch. 282. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 136. 1878, ch. 23.
143. When their commissions are delivered to them, the
following officers shall respectively pay to the clerk from whom
they receive the same, the sums following, to wit: The judges
of each of the circuit courts for the several counties, fifty
dollars; the judge of the superior court, of the court of com-
mon pleas, of the circuit court and circuit court No. 2 of Balti-
more city, of the Baltimore city court, and the criminal court of
Baltimore, each fifty dollars; the judges of the court of appeals,
each fifty dollars; the sheriff of Baltimore city, three hundred
dollars; the sheriff of Baltimore county, Frederick county and
Washington county, each one hundred dollars; the sheriff of
Allegany county, seventy-five dollars; the sheriff of Carroll
county, Harford county, Dorchester county, Anne Arundel county,
Worcester county, Somerset county, Cecil county and Prince
George's county, each forty dollars; the sheriff of Howard county,
thirty dollars; the sheriff of Caroline county, Montgomery
county, Talbot county, Charles county, Queen Anne's county,
Calvert county, Garrett county, Kent county, Wicomico county,
and St. Mary's county, each twenty dollars; each judge of the
orphans' court of Baltimore city, fifty dollars; each judge of
the orphans' court in the several counties, ten dollars; each
justice of the peace and constable in the State, two dollars ;
the tobacco inspectors, each fifty dollars; the weigher of live
stock, fifty dollars; the weighers of grain, hay and straw, each
ten dollars; each notary public in the city of Baltimore, the
sum of twenty dollars; the clerk of the circuit court and of
the circuit court No. 2 of Baltimore city, the clerk of the court
of common pleas, the clerk of the city court, and the clerk of
the criminal court of Baltimore, each two hundred dollars; the
register of wills of the city of Baltimore, two hundred dollars ;
the register of wills of Baltimore county, one hundred and fifty
dollars; the register of wills of Frederick county, one hundred
dollars; the register of wills of Washington county, seventy-
five dollars; the register of wills of Allegany county, Carroll
county, Harford county, Kent county, Dorchester county, Anne