812 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 370

214A. The Sheriff of Anne Arundel County shall collect
all fees and charges in civil and criminal cases to which his
office may be entitled by law, including, specifically the same
fees for serving warrants for distraint and summoning and
swearing appraises for distress for rent as are now allowed by
law and the serving of which warrants, the summoning and
- swearing of appraises are hereby made part of the duties of
the said Sheriff; and he shall exercise all powers conferred
upon him by law to enforce the collection of said fees and
charges and shall exercise all powers conferred upon him by
law to enforce the collection of the same, and shall keep a sys-
tematic and complete record of all such cases and collections
from the same; and shall at the first meeting of the County
Commissioners held in each month make a full and detailed
report of all fees charged for, and also all fees received by
him for the preceding month in all civil and criminal cases;
the said statements and reports to be under oath of the Sheriff,
and the said statement and report to be accompanied by the
Sheriff's check for all of such fees, both civil and criminal,
collected by him during the preceding month. Provided,
however, that the said Sheriff may retain from the civil fees
collected by him an amount not exceeding in the aggregate five
hundred dollars per annum, sufficient to pay the actual and
necessary expenses for deputies serving civil papers in civil
cases, the said deductions to be specified and itemized in the
Sheriff's monthly reports. The amounts so charged for expenses
of deputies shall be reasonable and shall not exceed a maximum
schedule to be prescribed by the County Commissioners and
filed with the Sheriff. And whenever any Sheriff shall retire
from office, leaving uncollected any costs, fees or charges in
civil and criminal cases lawfully payable to him or his office, it
shall be the duty of his successor to collect and pay over the
same in the manner above prescribed and it shall be the duty of
the Sheriff to keep in his office, in proper books for the purpose,
an official record of the fees and charges to be collected by him
and those which have been so collected, which books shall re-
main in his office after the expiration of his term for the use
of his successor.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from June first, 1922.

Approved April 13th, 1922.