SCHOOLS, PUBLIC FREE, &c.

1719

trustees chosen to distribute and apply the school funds ap-
propriated to said county within the several election districts
thereof.

SCHOOLS, PUBLIC FREE,
IN THE FIRST ELECTION DISTRICT.

These laws are of too restricted influence to be re-printed, unless by
departing from the principles upon which this compilation has pro-
gressed — a list is given to aid in referring to them.
1825, ch. 142; 1826, ch. 263; 1827, ch. 46; 1831, ch. 258 ; 1832, ch.
287. To be repealed by 1833, ch. 278, if a majority of voters so decide.

IN THE TWELFTH ELECTION DISTRICT.

AN ACT to establish Public Schools in the Twelfth Election District of
Baltimore County.— 1834, ch. 333.
See preceding note.

SHERIFF.
AN ACT relating to the Sheriff of Baltimore County. — 1818, ch. 142.

SEC. 1. Repealed by 1820, ch. 186, sec. 7 , ante page 744.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the sheriff of Baltimore
county shall be entitled to a reasonable sum of money per
annum to pay a porter or gate-keeper at the gaol of said county.

AM ACT to regulate certain Powers, Duties and Compensation of the
Sheriffs of Baltimore County, and for other purposes — 1827, ch. 214.

Sheriff to
be entitled
to a sum of
money to
pay porter,
&c.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the sheriff of Baltimore county shall have the same right
and power to deliver to the warden of the jail of Baltimore
county for safe keeping, as prisoners, all persons whom he or
any of his deputies shall arrest in virtue of any lawful process
in a civil action to him directed, before such persons shall be
committed, as the said sheriff has by law to deliver to the said
warden, persons committed in execution or for want of special

Sheriff nu-
thonzed to
deliver to
pardon —
persons
arrested
and not
committed.

bail, and the said sheriff shall also have the same right and
power to take out of the said jail, any person so by him de-
livered to the said warden for safe keeping, at any time before
such person shall be committed to prison as he would have
had, if the act, entitled, an act to appoint a warden for the jail

Or to take
such per-
sons out of
jail.

of Baltimore county had not been passed ; Provided always,
that the said sheriff at the time of delivery to the said warden,
any person arrested on civil process, and not committed, shall
also deliver to him a copy certified by the said sheriff to be
true of the writ or other process, in virtue of which such per-
son shall be arrested and held in custody, and shall also give
receipt for every person on taking him out of the said jail, and
also a certified copy of the order of court, if any, in virtue of
which such person shall be taken out of prison.

Certificate
required.