832 SOMERSET COUNTY. [ART. 19.

197. The said board shall have power to confer certificates of
proficiency upon such pupils of the high schools as shall give
evidence of attainment in the studies pursued in the schools.

198. The interest arising from any school funds apportioned
by the State to Somerset county, or any such funds as may be-
long to said county, shall be paid directly to the treasurer of
said board of school commissioners, and the balance necessary
for the support of public education, beyond any fees for tuition
which may be received as hereinbefore provided, shall be levied
and collected by taxation upon the assessable property of the
said county, in the same manner that other taxes are levied and
collected, which sums, when so collected, shall also be paid over
to the said treasurer; Provided, there shall not be levied or col-
lected in any one year more than twelve cents in every hundred
dollars; but a special tax may be imposed upon any school dis-
trict, if a majority of the tax payers in said school district shall
so petition the county commissioners.

SHEKIPP.

199. The sheriff of said county shall be entitled to twenty-five
cents per day for keeping and boarding each prisoner committed
to the jail of said county.

200. He shall be entitled to fifty cents for the delivery of each
certificate of appointment of trustees of the poor.

TRESPASS.

201. If any person shall cut down, or cause or induce any
person to cut down, any tree or timber of a size not less than
those commonly used for hoop poles, with intent to steal the
same, or any part thereof, within the limits of said county, he,
his aiders and abettors, having knowledge of such intent to steal,
shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall be sentenced to such
punishment as is or may be prescribed by law for feloniously
stealing goods or chattels to the value of one tree or trees,
which shall be cut down as aforesaid, and of the injury thereby
occasioned.

202. Any person who shall advisedly and maliciously, with the
intent to injure the owner of any land, house or building in aaid
county, cut down any tree, or cut down, break, dig or pull up,