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Party demanding execution to lodge certificate of sum due at office of under sheriff.
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12. No sheriff shall, for executing any decree, demand or receive fees on any larger sum than shall be certified in writing to be justly due thereon by the party on whose behalf such execution shall be demanded, or his attorney, known agent, or receiver; and the party demanding such execution shall, when he shall so demand the same, lodge with the sheriff, either by delivering the same at the office of the under sheriff in the town in which such office shall be kept, to the sheriff, under sheriff, or clerk in charge of such office, or by sending the same through the General Post Office in a letter duly registered according to the regulations of the Post Office, and addressed to the sheriff at the office of such under sheriff, a certificate under his hand, or under the hand of his attorney or known agent or receiver, stating the sum then claimed to be due on foot of such decree, after all equitable deductions; which certificate shall be filed in the office of the said under sheriff, and the sum therein stated shall be entered in the “decree and order book” herein-after mentioned, and also at the foot of the decree when delivered for execution, for which the fee of sixpence shall be paid to the sheriff by the party demanding such execution.
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