For summoning evidences to prove the bounds of lands, for each person summoned. . . . . 40 If empowered to swear evidences, for every witness sworn by him.. 15 For serving subpoena and return.. 40 For keeping a prisoner in jail and finding him victuals, per For serving a writ of possession in ejectment and return.. 30 2.00 1.00 For serving an attachment of contempt and return... 1.00 1 25 3.00 10 For serving ne exeat and return For serving a copy of declaration or short note.. oath ... For swearing the said appraisers, every oath return .. For executing a writ of ad quod damnum or melius inquirendum, and return, per day. For empanelling a jury on the same. 40 15 15 1 25 3.00 For swearing the said jury, for every oath. 15 For taking an inquisition and returning the same with the said writ..... For serving a writ of re-restitution, and return... For each person summoned as an evidence on the same... 40 40 15 For an arrest on a warrant, and return, in criminal cases. . 50 40 For return on an attachment when mesne process.. 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.... The same fees for executing replevin as upon executions. For serving writ of retorno habendo, and return. For serving and return of elegit or liberate. 15 1 25 125 For empanelling jury on elegit or extent. . For swearing the same, each..... 1 25 3.00 15 For serving writ of restitution, and return. For summons in partition, for every person summoned, and return... For serving writ of partition, and return. 2.00 40 40 For serving an attachment in partition, and return. 1 50 For delivering commissions to supervisors of roads, to be For summoning appraisers in cases of distress for rent and swearing them, each.. 20 For serving an execution.. 15 P. G. L., (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. & McH. Maddox . Cranch, 4 H. & McH. 344. Fisher . Beatty, 3 H. & McH. 148. 401. State v. Duval, 4 H. & McH. 4. Howard o. Levy Court, 1 H. & J. 558. Hall v. Belt, 8 G. & J. 470. Gurley . Lee, 11 G. & J. 395. Deale v. Estep, 3 Bl. 433. Surveyors. The Cape Sable Co.'s Case, 3 P. G. L., (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 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. 8. Alteration of old or opening of 14. Carrying on ferry without license; 15. Ferries across the Chesapeake bay; precautions; penalty. vided: ferries between city and county. 16. Non-performance of duties by 20. Ferry belonging to a county, two ferry-keeper; penalty. 17. Injury to boats, etc., used in pub lic ferry: penalty; ferry not to 21. counties, or county and city of Baltimore; free passage. Contract for renting or keeping ferry, subject to ratification. Record of bonds taken under provisions of this article. 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 grant such license at any other period of the year, to be in force only until the first day of May then next ensuing. Ibid. sec. 2 1781, ch. 22, sec. 2. 2. Every person obtaining a license to keep a ferry shall give bond to the State with two sufficient securities, in the sum of two hundred dollars, conditioned that he will faithfully and diligently keep the ferry for which he shall obtain license, with such hands and boats as the county commissioners or mayor shall direct, from daylight to daylight, from the first of November to the first of March, and from an hour before to an hour after daylight, for the residue of the year, and that he will not charge or receive any greater price for ferriage than allowed by law. Ibid. sec. 3. 1782, ch. 31, sec. 3. 3. Whenever any person shall apply to the county commissioners or mayor of the city of Baltimore for a license to keep a public ferry, and shall offer two good and sufficient securities, the county commissioners or mayor shall grant such license, notwithstanding they or he may have, previous to such application, granted license or licenses to other persons to keep a ferry at the same place. P. G. L., (1860,) art. 39, sec. 4. 1799, ch. 83, sec. 5. 4. If the proprietor of the land at any place now used as a public ferry, or where a public ferry may hereafter be established, shall refuse or neglect for the space of two months to take out a license agreeably to this article, or to rent the housesand land commonly used with or necessary for such ferry, to some person to be approved of by the said commissioners who will take out a license for the same, or be under any disability to take out a license, or to rent aforesaid, by reason whereof the same shall be delayed to be done to the inconvenience of the public, for the space of three months beyond the annual time for granting such ferry licenses, in such case the county commissioners of the county in which such land shall lie shall issue a warrant to the sheriff of the county, to summon twelve respectable disinterested persons, qualified by law to be jurymen, and also the surveyor of the county, to meet on the premises on a day by him to be appointed, of which due and timely notice shall be given by the said sheriff to the owner or possessor of such land. Ibid. sec. 5. 1799, ch. 83, sec. 5. 5. And the said jury shall then and there, upon viewing the place, determine how much land, not exceeding two acres, and not including the dwelling-house, garden, orchard or meadow of the owner or possessor, or any part thereof, shall be necessary and most convenient to be laid off for the use of such ferry; and the said surveyor, under their direction, shall survey and lay off the same, and make a correct plat and certificate thereof, and shall deliver the same to the said sheriff, to be returned to the circuit court for the county; and said jury shall then and there estimate the value of the said land; in doing which, they shall take into consideration all the advantages of its situation, for the purpose of keeping a ferry or pursuing any other business, having first taken an oath justly and impartially to value the same land; and they shall make inquest of their proceedings as aforesaid, under their hands and seals, which shall be returned by the said sheriff, with the certificate and plat aforesaid, to the next circuit court for the county. |