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BALTIMORE COUNTY.

Present
visitors.

SEC. 19. And be it enacted, That the present visitors and
governors and warden of the jail now in office, shall continue
therein, till such time as the visitors to be appointed under this
law, shall have qualified themselves to act under it, and shall
have appointed a warden to take charge of the prisoners, and to
enter upon the duties of his office, after which, and not before,
the act, entitled, an act to appoint a warden for the jail of Bal-

Repeal.

timore county, passed at December session, eighteen hundred
and twenty-six, chapter two hundred and twenty-four, shall be,
and is hereby repealed.

Payment in
advance re-
quired for
prisoners

SEC. 20. And be it enacted, That from and after the passage
of this act, no person shall be imprisoned in the jail of Balti-
more city and county, under any process in any civil case
issued by a justice of the peace, or under any process on any
judgment of Baltimore county court on any appeal or certiorari
from a judgment or proceeding of a justice of the peace, unless
the person or persons in whose behalf such process shall have
issued, or some person for him or them, shall at the time of
commitment of the person subject to the process aforesaid, pay
to the warden of said jail, the sum of one dollar and forty cents,
for one week's maintenance of the person to be imprisoned as
aforesaid ; in default of which payment, said warden shall re-

Proviso.

fuse to receive such person ; Provided, that the provision of this
section shall not be taken to apply to persons under any crimi-
nal process, or under any commitment for any fine imposed by
any court or justice of the peace, or for any breach of the peace,
or for other criminal act or for violation of any penal law of the
state, or of any penal ordinance of the city of Baltimore.

See 1832, ch. 183, which authorizes a discharge of the prisoner if the
per diem is not paid.

Reservation

SEC. 21. And be it enacted, That nothing herein contained
shall be construed so as to prevent the legislature from altering
or repealing any of the provisions of this act.

AN ACT Supplementary to the Act, entitled, an Act relating to the Jail of
Baltimore City and County, passed at December session, eighteen hun-
dred and thirty-one, chapter fifty-eight— 1832, ch. 183.

$1 40 al-
lowed for
mainte-
nance of the
prisoners.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
after any person shall conformably to the provisions of the
twentieth section of the act to which this is a supplement,
have been received and imprisoned in the jail of Baltimore city
and county, the sum of one dollar and forty cents for mainte-
nance of such prisoner shall be paid weekly in advance for and
during the whole time of such imprisonment ; and on any de-
fault of such payment being made at the end of the first week
for which the payment required by said section of said act shall
have been made, or at the end of every week thereafter in ad-