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in serving each writ of fieri facias a fee of two dollars ($2.00), and
the clerk of the People's Court shall not issue said writ until the
person, firm, or corporation ordering the issuance of the same
shall pay said fee to said clerk; and the clerk of the People's Court
shall forward the fee directly to the County Treasurer of Wicomico
County. If there is a sale of the property seized under the writ of
fieri facias, the aforesaid $2.00 fee shall be credited to the court
costs, however if no property is seized the $2.00 shall be forfeited.
The said judge of the People's Court shall also have the authority
to appoint an additional clerical assistant or assistants as may be
necessary from time to time, by and with the advice and consent
of the County Commissioners of Wicomico County, said County
Commissioners to fix the pay and compensation therefor; said ad-
ditional clerical assistant or assistants, appointed as aforesaid,
before entering upon his, her or their duties thereof, shall give bond
to the State of Maryland in the penalty of five thousand dollars
($5,000.00) with corporate surety satisfactory to said County Com-
missioners, the premium of said bond or bonds to be paid by the
County Commissioners of Wicomico County.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved March 11, 1959.

CHAPTER 193
(House Bill 224)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 26 of
Article 36 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition), title
"Fees of Officers", sub-title "Sheriffs", relating to certain poundage
fees in Wicomico County and providing for the collection and
payment of the same.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 26 of Article 36 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Fees of Officers", sub-title "Sheriffs", be and it
is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

26.

The sheriff shall have as poundage fees computed upon the value
of the personal property or the amount of the debt whichever is less
for levying an execution at the rate of seven and a half per cent,
on the first twenty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents, and at the
rate of three per cent, on the residue, but if execution be laid on
any interest in lands only one-half of the poundage fees shall be

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