1874.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 401

Commissioners shall pay or order to be paid to the Sheriff of
said county, any sum of money for serving any bench-war-
rant or bench-warrants, or attachment or attachments, or for
preforming extra duty of any kind, other than those fees al-
lowed in Article thirty-eight, section twenty-seven, of the
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, a petition shall
be filed with said County Commissioners for each and every
separate case where such extra compensation is asked, which
said petition shall be carefully kept and preserved in the
office of said Commissioners, and shall set forth with accu-
racy, particularity, minuteness, exactness and in detail the
nature and kind of services for which said extra compensa-
tion is asked, the time consumed in performing the same,
the circumstances attending the performance of said services,
and such petition shall show clearly and plainly why any
such extra compensation is asked, and why such extra servi-
ces were necessary; and said petition shall he verified by the
oath or affimation, as the case may be, of the Sheriff of said
county himself, and of the deputy who performed such ser-
vices in case they were performed by a deputy; and it shall
be the duty of said County Commissioners to examine care-
fully each petition so filed, in which extra compensation is
asked, and to see that the requirements of this Act
are striclty complied with; and said County Commissioners
shall not pay, or order to be paid, any claim for extra
compensation, as aforesaid, unless each and every pro-
vision of this Act is fully complied with, and unless there
is annexed to each petition for extra compensation, in each
and every case, an affidavit or affirmation, as the case may
be, of the truth of the matters set forth in such petition,
and that such extra services were absolutely and indispensa-
bly necessary in each case for which extra compensation is
asked or claimed; and said County Commissioners, after all
the requirements of this Act are complied with, shall then
pay only such sum for extra compensation as shall appear to
them to be a fair, reasonable and proper compensation, and
unless fully and entirely satisfied, after examination of said
petition, and other investigation if necessary in their judg-
ment, that the extra services for which such extra compensa-
tion is claimed were absolutely necessary.

SUB-SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That sub-section
one shall take effect from and after the date of the passage of
this Act.

The amendments proposed to the body of said bill were
severally read and adopted,

And the bill as amended read a third time, (by unanimous
consent,) and ordered to be engrossed.

The bill entitled an Act'to authorize the Mayor and City