870 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 327.

AN ACT to regulate the salary of the State's Attorney for
Howard county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the State's Attorney for Howard county shall receive
an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars for the perform-
ance of the official duties of his said office, which now are or
may hereafter be required by law, said salary to be in lieu of
all fees, appearance and trial, and all other compensations for
same, and to be payable semi-annually on the first day of Jan-
uary and the first day of July by the County Treasurer, upon
the order of the County Commissioners, and said duties shall
also include his services before the justices of the peace of
said county in criminal cases, in preliminary hearings or trials
when, in the public interest, he attends on his own motion or at
the request of any of the said justices, and shall include all ad-
vice regarding criminal law and procedure which he shall give
any justice of the peace of said county; provided, however, that
his actual expenses incurred in following and trying criminal
cases removed from said county shall be paid in addition to his
salary; and that all general or local laws inconsistent with the
provisions of this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the
sheriff to collect and pay over to the County Commissioners
quarterly any appearance or other fee, taxed as parts of the
costs payable to the State's Attorney in any criminal case.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect and
said salary shall begin on May 1, 1908.

Approved April 6, 1908.

SYKESVILLE-—See Chapter 232, page 704.

TAX ON MORTGAGES—See Chapter 283, page 242.

CHAPTER 344.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section 7 of
chapter 455, of the Acts of 1900, entitled "An Act to repeal
section 8 of chapter 317, Acts of 1896, entitled 'An Act to
create a Treasurer for Howard county, and to provide for the