ART. 87] FINES AND PENALTIES. 1913

1888, art. 87, sec. 35. 1860, art 88, sec. 52. 1788, ch. 31.

36. Any sheriff whose term has expired shall have the same
power to collect his own fees or any officers' fees previously
placed in his hands for collection for one year thereafter that
he had during the time he was sheriff and may distrain or
execute for the same in the same manner as if his commission
had not expired.

Ibid. sec. 36. 1860, art. 88, sec. 53. 1824, ch 202, secs. 2-4.
1840, ch. 216, sec. 4. 1842, ch. 272, sec. 3.

37. If any sheriff shall die, his administrator may collect all
fees placed in the hands of such sheriff for collection, in the
same manner and by the same means as said sheriff might
have done in his lifetime; provided, the power to execute or
distrain for such fees shall not extend beyond two years after
the date of his letters, and such fees shall be applied to the
payment of officers' fees due from the sheriff and not applied to
any other purpose until such officers' fees are paid.

Ibid. sec. 37. 1860, art. 88, sec. 54. 1715, ch. 46, sec. 6.

38. No sheriff shall levy a distress or execution for officers'
fees if the person from whom such fees are claimed shall pro-
duce the former sheriff's receipt or otherwise make it appear
that the said fees have been paid, under a penalty of fifty
dollars for each offense.

Fines and Penalties.

Ibid. sec. 38. 1860, art. 88, sec. 55. 1795, ch. 74, sec. 7.

39. The sheriff shall be answerable for all fines, penalties
and forfeitures imposed on the inhabitants of his county or of
Baltimore city by any court of record of this State unless he
can show that the party on whom the same was imposed is
insolvent.

Ibid. sec. 39. 1860, art. 88, sec. 66. 1795, ch. 74, sec. 2. 1828, ch. 11, sec. 1.

40. He may require the State's attorney to issue an execu-
tion for all fines, penalties or forfeitures so imposed and the
costs; provided that any person adjudged to pay a fine or
penalty may enter into a recognizance with security for the
payment of the same and costs within sixty days and no
execution shall issue for the same until the expiration of the
sixty days.

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