702

LAWS OF MARYLAND

whose fees are properly chargeable against the

What consti-

county, and the same may be entitled to for such

tutes author-

attendance, shall be sufficient authority for the

ity.

treasurer of said county to pay the amount therein

specified on presentation; and it shall be the duty

of the county commissioner's to levy, for the use of

said treasurer, annually, in advance, such sum of

Levy to ad-
vance

money as they may deem sufficient to discharge all

claims which may accrue for the attendance and pay

of said officers, jurors and witnesses for the terms of

the Circuit Court for one year next succeeding the

first day of January after said levy, and their failure

to do so shall be deemed a misdemeanor, for which

they shall be individually liable to punishment, by

fine or imprisonment, or both, upon trial and con-

viction in the Circuit Court for said county, as in

case of other misdemeanors; and it shall be the

duty of the said treasurer, thirty days before each

Draw requi-

term of the Circuit Court for said county, to draw a

sition.

requisition upon any collector or collectors of the

county taxes in whose hands said levy or portions

thereof may have been placed for collection, for

such sum or sums as said treasurer may deem neces-

sary to meet the expenses of said term of court, and

the said collector shall forthwith pay over to the

said treasurer the amount or amounts of said requi-

sition or requisitions; if said collectors, or any of

them, fail to pay the sum or sums so required on or

before the first day of the term of the Circuit Court

succeeding the date of said requisition, it shall be

the duty of the said treasurer to forthwith give to

the State's Attorney, or to some other attorney, a

statement of the account of said collector or collec-

tors, and a certificate of the amount in default under

said requisition, signed and sworn to, and thereupon

Docket a suit.

it shall be the duty of said attorney to docket a suit

on or before the third day of the said term of court

then in session, and the sheriff shall forth with serve

and return the summons in said case; said suit shall

be brought against the bond of the said collector, for

the use of the said treasurer, and on motion being

made in his behalf, the court shall forthwith enter

judgment at said term of court, at which said suit shall

be brought against the said collector and his sureties,

and execution shall issue thereon without stay, right

of appeal or supersedeas, and the pleadings in said