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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The People versus Oliver M. Lownds, Sheriff of the City and County of New-York.
    Oct. Term, 1828.
    On an attachment against the Sheriff for not returning a fi. fa. ruled, that the recognizance be in double the amount of the fi. fa. and that the sheriff should answer such interrogatories as should' be regularly exhibited.
    An attachment had been issued against the sheriff for not returning a fi. fa. on which were endorsed directions to levy $331 Judah moved, that the sheriff’s recognizance to appear de die in diem, (until the court should determine concerning the matters objected against him,) be in double the amount o^ the fi. fa. with two sureties, according to the form in the first of CowerCs Reports, [580. n. (a.) See also Herring v. Tylee, 1 Johns. Cases, 31. and 1 Dunlap's Prac. 346.]
   The Court

directed the recognizance accordingly, and thatthe sheriff should answer such interrogatories as should be regularly exhibited.