ART. 87] DEATH PENALTY—CONVICTS—COLLECTION OF FEES. 1911

performed, and for said service said physician shall receive the
sum of fifteen dollars, to be paid by the county or Baltimore
city where said execution takes place (as the case may be); and
said sheriff shall return the execution of the sentence under
said warrant, verified by his oath, to the court which sentenced
said prisoner, together with said physician's certificate, which,
with said return, shall be recorded by the clerk among the
proceeding in the case.

Removal of Convicts to the Penitentiary.

1888, art. 87, sec. 28. 1860, art. 88, sec. 32. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 27.

29. Every person convicted in any court of this State and
sentenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary shall,
as soon as possible after conviction, be safely removed by the
sheriff of the county where such conviction took place and at
the expense of such county to the penitentiary; and every
sheriff failing to comply with the provisions of this section
shall forfeit one thousand dollars.

Clifford v. State, 30 Md. 575.

Collection of Officers' Pees.

Ibid. sec. 29. 1860, art. 88, sec. 46. 1861, ch. 53. 1882, ch. 64.

30. The sheriff shall collect all fees due to the following
officers which may be placed in his hands for collection
between the first day of January and the first day of May in
each year, namely : attorneys, clerks of all the courts, commis-
sioner of the land office, coroners, criers, registers of wills, sur-
veyors and sheriffs. This section shall not apply to Baltimore
city or Harford county.

Ibid. sec. 30. 1860, art. 68, sec. 47. 1861, ch. 53.

31. He may distrain or execute the goods and chattels of
any person against whom any fees are placed in his hands for
collection; provided he has sixty days previously delivered to
such person or left at his place of abode an account of such fees.

Ibid. sec. 31. 1860, art. 88, sec. 48. 1779, ch. 25, sec. 13.
1822, ch. 219, sec. 2.

32. If he shall be informed by the affidavit of any one
taken before a justice of the peace that a person against whom
he has fees to collect has absconded or is about to do so, the
sheriff may distrain or execute immediately, without having
previously delivered an account of fees; provided that if any