For taking, filing and recording the recognizance or indenture of an apprentice bound by the orphans'

For exemplification of letters testamentary without a
copy of will, or of administration under seal of office.
For making out the balance and distribution of a
deceased person's estate, including all searches and
references for that purpose. .
For entering the appointment of persons to ascertain
and report the annual value of the real or personal
estate of minors and issuing warrant under seal with
probate thereon

For issuing a second or other warrant under seal of office for the appraisement of personal property or assets belonging to a deceased person's estate, with a probate thereon.

For entering and recording an order of court for a sale
of property and a transcript thereof under certificate
and seal of office

For entering an order of court to notify creditors to
produce their claims and a transcript thereof under
a certificate and seal of office
For entering an appeal with prayer and order in rela-
tion thereto

.

For taxing, making out and filing a bill of costs of the
parties to a petition, libel, caveat, or in any case of
controversy, with the several items or articles at large.
For a copy thereof, if demanded and delivered
For making out docket for the orphans' court, for every
ten words or figures written, and so pro rata
For alphabeting every instrument, proceeding, paper or
other matter recorded in the office and endorsing or
entering thereon a certificate referring to the record,
other than alphabets to the docket of citations and
attachments .

For filing, entering, endorsing and preserving each paper
in any controverted case and not otherwise charged
for

For issuing summons, attachment or other process
where there are one or more persons, under seal
For writing and taking probat of account or claim against
estates of deceased persons, including the oaths
For any entry on the docket not herein provided for, if
allowed by the orphans' court.

$ 50

50

50

75

50

50

50

10

15

10

1/1/

5

30

10

5

For entering any judgment, order or decree of the orphans' court

For recording or transcribing any paper or thing not
herein provided for, for every ten words or figures,
and so pro rata.

For recording indenture of apprentice bound by his
father or himself or by the trustees of the poor
For receiving and paying over any taxes due the State
or other public money, he shall retain five per centum,
except in the city of Baltimore, where he shall retain
two per centum.

Banks v. State, 60 Md. 305.

Sheriffs.

$ 25

1

40

1888, art. 36, sec. 28.

1832, ch. 307 sec. 17.

1860, art. 38, sec. 27.
1834, ch. 192, sec. 4.
1853, ch. 300, sec. 8.

1779, ch. 25, secs. 3, 4, 5. 1839, ch. 35, sec. 5.

28. Sheriffs shall be entitled to charge and receive the

following fees, to wit:

For serving writ and return

For taking bail bond.

For collecting officers' fees, for every hundred, six per

cent.

For every commitment and release

For empaneling a jury

For serving scire facias, including the persons sum

moned

For serving citation

For executing a warrant of resurvey, per day

For summoning evidences to prove the bounds of lands, for each person summoned

If empowered to swear evidences, for every witness sworn by him

For serving subpœna and return

For keeping a prisoner in jail and finding him victuals,
per day

For serving a writ of possession in ejectment and return
For serving an ejectment and return.

.

For serving an attachment of contempt and return
For serving writ of estrepement and return
For serving ne exeat and return

For serving a copy of declaration or short note

10

For summoning appraisers to value goods taken by
attachment, fieri facias or replevin, for each appraiser
summoned

For swearing the said appraisers, every oath.
For serving an attachment on judgment or execution
and return

For executing a writ of ad quod damnum or melius
inquirendum, and return, per day

For empanelling a jury on the same
For swearing the said jury, for every oath

For taking an inquisition and returning the same with
the said writ

For serving a writ of re-restitution, and return
For empaneling a jury to inquire of a forcible entry
and detainer.

For each person summoned as an evidence on the same
For summoning chain carriers, each, if required
For swearing chain carriers, every oath

For an arrest on a warrant, and return, in criminal cases
For serving duces tecum, and return

3.00

15

40

2.00

3.00

40

40

15

50

40

For return on an attachment when mesne process
For laying an attachment in any garnishee's hands, for
each garnishee .

15

40

For all goods and chattels which any sheriff shall attach and take into his possession or wherewith he shall be chargeable, the same fees as on execution.

For returning a writ of, replevin

15

The same fees for executing replevin as upon executions.
The same fees for serving a withernam as upon replevin.
Also the same fees on appraisement and sale of goods
distrained and sold for rent.

For serving writ of retorno habendo, and return
For serving writ of distringas, and return
For serving and return of elegit or liberate
For empanelling jury on elegit or extent
For swearing the same, each

For summons in partition, for every person summoned,

For serving an attachment in partition, and return

For returning a writ of inquiry of damages

For empanelling a jury thereon

For swearing the same, each

For attendance, per day.

For delivering commissions to supervisors of roads, to

be paid by the county, each.

For transfer of stock under execution

For summoning appraisers in cases of distress for rent and swearing them, each.

For serving an execution

1888, art. 36, sec. 29. 1860, art. 38, sec. 28. 1790, ch. 59, sec. 2. 29. The sheriff shall have as poundage fees 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 charged, and if laid upon lands and the lands be not sold by the sheriff he shall charge only one-fourth of the poundage fees aforesaid.

Stewart v. Dorsey's Ex'x, 3 H. &

Fisher v. Beatty, 3 H. & McH. 148. McH. 401. State v. Duvall, 4 H. & McH. 4. Maddox v. Cranch, 4 H. & McH. 344. Howard v. Levy Court, 1 H. & J. 558. Hall v. Belt, 8 G. & J. 470. Gurley v. Lee, 11 G. & J. 395. Deale v. Estep, 3 Bl. 433. Co.'s Case, 3 Bl. 624. Gilmor v. Brien, 1 Md. Ch. Dec. 40. 24 Md. 362.

The Cape Sable

Eakle v. Smith,

Ibid. sec. 30.

Surveyors.

1860, art. 38, sec. 29. 1849, ch. 549, sec. 1.

30. The surveyors of the several counties and the city of Baltimore shall each be entitled to charge for his individual services, under warrant of survey or re-survey directed from the land office, under orders or warrants of re-survey directed from the courts of law, and under orders from courts of equity a per diem of four dollars for each day he may necessarily be engaged in performing the duty the said orders and warrants enjoin on the said surveyors, and when the same shall be required by the person for whom the services shall be rendered shall state his account of such services under oath.

ARTICLE XXXVII.

FERRIES.

1888, art. 37, sec. 1. 1860, art. 39, sec. 1. 1781, ch. 22, sec. 1. 1. The county commissioners of the several counties and the mayor of Baltimore may, on the first day of May in each year, grant a license to any inhabitant of their county or city to keep a public ferry at any place within their county or city where a ferry has been kept and established, and from such place to any other county, or from the said city to any county, or from this to any other State; and such license shall be renewed annually; and the said county commissioners or mayor may