1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 33.

all proceedings under the fieri facias shall cease, and the
case be traced in the usual way.

Officers' fees.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all sheriffs, deputy sheriffs,
justices of the peace and constables, shall be allowed, and
receive for their services in enforcing the provisions of
this act, and said act of eighteen hundred and twenty-
four, the same fees which are allowed and paid in other
criminal cases; and that any sheriff or constable, making
any sale or sales, under the provisions of this act, shall
be allowed the same poundage fees which are allowed for
the execution of writs of fieri facias.

CHAPTER 33.

Passed Mar. 20
1840.

An act further to provide for the payment of the interest
on the public debt of this State, and for the conversion of
its sterling bonds into currency debt.

Revenue to ac-
crue from Balt.
and W. Rail R.
to be distributed
among the sev-

eral counties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That in place of the interest on so much of
the State's share of the surplus revenue of the United
States as was in pursuance of chapter three hundred and
eight of the acts of December session, eighteen hundred
and thirty-seven, specially deposited to the credit of the
State in the Union Bank of Maryland and Franklin Bank
of Baltimore, thirty-four thousand and sixty-nine dollars
and thirty-six cents yearly of the revenue to accrue to the
State after the thirtieth day of June next from the Balti-
more and Washington Rail Road, shall after deducting
therefrom one thousand dollars per annum, to provide for
the instruction of the indigent blind, as is by the said act
directed, on the first day of July, in the year eighteen
hundred and forty-one, and annually thereafter distributed
by the treasurer of the Western Shore among the several
counties of this State and the city of Baltimore for the
support of free schools, in the manner by the said act
also directed, and shall be paid or invested by the said
treasurer accordingly.

Surplus Reve.
to be applied to
payment of int.
on public debt.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the whole residue of
the said surplus revenue, and the interest thereon received
and to be received, after deducting from the said interest
thirty-four thousand and sixty-nine dollars and thirty-six
cents for the service of free schools for the current year,
be and the same is hereby appropriated to the payment of