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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

reasonable sum not exceeding twenty cents per person sum-

moned to testify in court in criminal cases during the trial of

such cases in term time; when the sheriff or his deputy can-

not summon the same for the want of time, and when such

summoned persons reside five miles from Cumberland, and

the sheriff shall show that he has actually paid such amounts

to additional deputies or constables; sixth, the actual sum of

money expended by the sheriff in purchasing food and es-

sential clothing for the prisoners in jail; seventh, the actual

sum expended by him for coal and other necessaries of said

jail, including a telephone, and said County Commissioners

shall allow and pay the said sheriff for no other or further

expenses whatsoever, upon any pretext, unless said unenumer-

ated expenses shall have been previously and specifically or-

dered by the Board in session ; provided, that no allowance for

Sheriff to re-

expenditures shall be paid or credited to said sheriff unless

port under

the same shall be reported under oath by said sheriff to the

oath all ex-
penses to

Board of Commissioners once in each month in writing, which

County Com-

oath shall show that the expenditures above enumerated when

missioncrs.

made are correct and have been honestly and lawfully incurred

and that the sheriff himself has not derived any profit from the

purchase thereof, or consumed or appropriated to himself or

permitted his deputy to appropriate to himself any part of

such purchases ; that each expenditure or purchase was

reasonable and necessary and the price thereof was not in ex-

cess of the market price thereof, which report and affidavit

shall be accompanied by properly itemized vouchers or certifi-

cates showing from whom and for what purpose the same

were made. All false swearing in such report and affidavit

To report all

shall be deemed perjury and be punished as such. The said

fines and

sheriff shall also include in said monthly report a full state-

costs collect-
ed by him.

ment of all fines and costs by him collected, and shall pay

the same over to the County Treasurer. Any violations of the

requirements of this Act, or failure to comply therewith shall

constitute a misdemeanor and be punished upon conviction,

by forfeiture of office and fine or imprisonment, or by all three,

in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1, 1904.

CHAPTER 214.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the County Commissioners

of Baltimore County to pay to Eugene Burke, deputy sheriff,