230 ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND ATTORNEYS IN FACT. [ART. 10

paying the same costs as would have been incurred by the finding a
true bill and plea of guilty; provided, such court shall consider it
proper in reference to the peace of the State so to do.

1904, art. 10, sec. 22. 1888, art. 10, sec. 20. 1860, art. 11, sec. 21.
1829, ch. 90, sec. 4.

23. The State's attorney in the several counties and the city of
Baltimore shall aid the comptroller and treasurer in the adjustment of
the accounts of the clerks, registers and sheriffs of theii respective
counties and the said city with the State, and shall advise the comp-
troller and treasurer, when required, of such allowance as he ought or
ought not to make the accountant for insolvency or non-residence; and
for such service and for his professional services in the collection of
the revenue, the comptroller may allow such attorney five per cent, on
all monies sued for and paid into the treasury.

Cited but not construed in Peacock v. Pembroke, 8 Md. 352.

Ibid. sec. 23. 188S. art. 10, sec. 21. 1860, art. 11. sec. 22. 1847, ch. 271.

1884, ch. 285. 1888. ch. 471. 1902, chs. 398, 452.

1904, chs. 106, 171, 176.

24. It shall be the duty of the respective State's attorneys of the
counties of this State, in making up their accounts against the board of
county commissioners of their respective counties, for all such services
and expenses as are properly chargeable against said board of county
commissioners, to state fully and particularly the services rendered,
and, the time and place when and where said services were rendered,
and the items of expenses incurred in the proper discharge of theit
duties, which account may include a reasonable trial fee for each case
actually tried, to be allowed in the discretion of the court, as well as
the appearance fee provided by law, and a reasonable compensation for
all other services performed by him; and which accounts, together with
the affidavit of said State's attorney as to the correctness thereof, and
the fairness of the charges therein made, shall be submitted by such
State's attorneys to the judges of the circuit courts for their respective
counties; and it shall be the duty of said judges to examine said
accounts, and if the items thereof are properly chargeable against said
county commissioners, and the charges are fair and reasonable, the said
judges shall endorse on said accounts their certificate to that effect; and
upon the certificate aforesaid of the said judges, or a majority of them,
being endorsed upon said accounts, the said accounts shall be filed with
the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the respective coun-
ties and it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the respec-
tive counties to pass said accounts as certified to them by said judges,
or a majority thereof; and it shall also be the duty of said county com-
missioners to levy and collect, for the use of the State's attorneys of
their respective counties, the amounts of money so as aforesaid certified
by said judges, or a majority of them, to be properly chargeable by said
States' attorneys, at the same time and in the same manner that other
county taxes are levied and collected; provided, that this section shall