142 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 81
title "Justices of the Peace and Constables, " reducing
certain fees and mileage for Constables of Caroline
County.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 360 of Article 6 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Caro-
line County, " sub-title "Justices of the Peace and Con-
stables, " be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments to read as follows:
360. The Constables of Caroline County shall be en-
titled to charge for their respective services in both crim-
inal and civil cases the following fees: —For serving State
warrant, and return, seventy-five cents and five cents
a mile for each mile traveled; for serving search warrant,
seventy-five cents; for serving summons in civil suit and
return, seventy-five cents; for serving summons for wit-
nesses and return, each witness, fifty cents; for levying
fieri facias and return, one dollar; for delivering a person
committed over to the jailor, fifty cents and five cents
for each mile traveled; for summoning jury of in-
quest, each juror, twenty cents; for serving writ of
replevin and return, seventy-five cents; for serving dis-
traint warrant one dollar; for summoning and swearing ap-
praisers, twenty-five cents each; for serving an attachment
in the hands of each garnishee, seventy-five cents; for
poundage fees on any distraint replevin, attachment or
fieri facias, 8 per cent, on the first $25. 00, 3 per cent, on
the residue; for taking each and every person committed
to the Maryland House of Correction or other institution,
ten dollars and all traveling expenses for both officer and
prisoner or prisoners; and the justices of the peace of
Caroline County shall be entitled to charge for their re-
spective services in both civil and criminal cases the fol-
lowing fees: For docketing and indexing each suit or case,
fifty cents; for issuing each summons in debt of damage
or writ of replevin, fifty cents; for every hearing or trial,
one dollar: for each writ of summons, forty cents; for
issuing fieri facias, fifty cents; for every supersedeas,
thirty-five cents; for swearing each witness, ten cents; for
every oath or affidavit, twenty cents; for every probate of
account, twenty cents; for entering every judgment or
verdict rendered, fifty cents; for taking bail, sixty cents;
for every warrant of attachment against a resident debtor,
fifty cents; for every attachment against every non-resident
or absconding debtor, one dollar and twenty-five cents; for
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