EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars for the per-

formance of the official duties of his said office, which are now

Regulating the
State's Attor-

or may hereafter be required by law, said salary to be in lieu

ney for Caro-

of all fees, appearance and trial, and all other compensations

line County.

for same and to be payable semi-annually on the first day

of January and the first day of July by the County Treasurer ;

and said duties shall also include his services before the jus-

tice 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 advice regarding criminal law and pro-

cedure 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 this salary; and that all

Extra compen-
sation.

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Act be and the same are hereby repealed.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

Duty of
Sheriff.

quarterly any appearance or other fee, taxed as part of the

cost payable to the State's Attorney in any criminal case.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect,

and the said salary begin, on May 1, 1904.

Approved March 25, 1904.

CHAPTER 177.

AN ACT to prohibit all persons under fifteen years of age

from carrying or having in their possession firearms of any

description within the limits of Garrett County.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That it shall be unlawful for all persons under the age

Prohibiting

of fifteen years to carry or have in his or her possession

children
from possess-

any shot gun, rifle, revolver or other firearm of any description

ing firearms.

within the limits of Garrett County.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person convicted of

violating this Act before any court of competent jurisdiction

Penalty for
violation.

shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than twenty

dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail for not less than

ten nor more than thirty days for each and every offense.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all fines imposed and col-

Fines to be

lected for violation of this Act shall be paid to the County

used for im-

Commissioners of Garrett County to be used by them in the

proving
county roads.

improvement of the public roads in said county.