throughout the whole county in which he may be appointed; and in executing and serving process issued by a justice of the peace, he shall have and exercise the same authority and powers over goods and chattels, and the persons of parties, as is granted by law to a sheriff, under like process issued from courts of record.
Sect. 168. When it shall become the duty of the constable to take the body of any person to the jail of the county, he shall deliver to the sheriff or jailer a certified copy of the commitment, or other process, whereby he holds such person in custody, and return the original to the justice who issued the same; which copy shall be sufficient authority to the sheriff or jailer to keep the prisoner in jail, until discharged by due course of law.
Sect. 169. Constables shall pay over to the party entitled thereto, all money received by them in their official capacity, if demand be made by such party, his agent, or attorney, at any time before he returns the writ upon which he has received it; if not paid over by that time, he shall pay the same to the justice when he returns the writ.
Sect. 170. Constables shall be liable to twenty per cent. penalty upon the amount of damages for which judgment may be entered against them, for failing to make return, making false return, or failing to pay over money by them collected or received in their official capacity, and such judgment must include, in addition to the damages and costs, the penalty herein provided.
ARTICLE XIV.—General Provisions.
Sect. 171. The provisions of the act entitled “An act to establish a code of civil procedure," approved May , 1862, which are in their nature applicable to the jurisdiction and proceedings before justices, and in respect to which no special provision is made by statute, are applicable to the proceedings before justices of the peace.
Sect. 172. Every justice must keep a book, denominated a docket, in which must be entered by him: 1. The title of every action, in which the writ is served, or where the parties voluntarily appear. 2. The date of the writ, the time of its return, and if an order to arrest the defendant