ART. 20] DISTRESS—EXECUTION. 497

1888, art. 20, sec. 10. 1860, art. 23. sec. 10. 1825, ch. 21.

10. Every constable shall serve and execute a warrant of
distress when required within the limits of the district of the
county or ward of the city for which he is appointed, and his
bond shall be responsible for the due performance of this
duty, and he is authorized to execute such warrant in any part
of his county or city, but he shall not be obliged to execute
the same beyond his district or ward; if he execute or under-
take to execute the same, his bond shall be liable.

Ibid. sec. 11. 1860, art. 23, sec. 11. 1809. ch. 177. see. 4.

11. Whenever any evidences of debt are put into the hands
of a constable for collection, he shall execute a receipt for the
same, if demanded, and upon his neglect or refusal to do so
he shall forfeit the sum of five dollars, to be recovered before
a justice by the party grieved.

Akin v. Denny, 37 Md. 81.

Ibid. sec. 14. 1860, art. 23, sec. 14. 1849, ch. 491.

12. If any constable to whom any execution has issued from
any justice of the peace shall die without having made any
levy thereunder, the securities of said constable on the bond
which would be liable under the said execution may return the
said execution to .the justice issuing the some, or any other
justice of the peace of the same county, if the justice issuing
the same shall have died or is not in office, with the endorse-
ment of the fact thereon; and the justice to whom such
execution shall be returned shall have power to issue another
execution upon being furnished with a copy of the judgment
upon which the execution was issued, if he is not the justice
who rendered the judgment.

Ibid. sec. 15. 1860, art. 23, sec. 15. 1845, ch. 379, secs. 1, 2.

13. If the constable shall die after having token in execu-
tion any chattels, before making sale thereof, his security or
other person interested in behalf of said deceased constable,
or the plaintiff, or any person interested on behalf of the
plaintiff, may have a new writ of fieri facias or venditioni
exponas, as the case may require, issued by the same or some
other justice of the county, directed to any constable of the
county; and under such new writ the constable shall seize and
take, and sell and convey the property taken in execution by
the deceased constable, in the same manner as tb'e deceased
constable might have done if he had lived.
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