866 ARTICLE 24.
An. Code, sec. 3. 1904, sec. 3. 1888, sec. 3. 1854, ch. 269, sec. 3.
3. So much of the said costs and expenses as are due to persons resi-
dent in the county where said cases are tried or removed to shall first be
paid by that county in the same manner as similar costs and expenses in
cases originating in said county are paid.
The payment of costs and expenses to parties resident therein by the county or
city where the cases are tried, is limited to actions, etc., removed from one county
to another which are properly chargeable to the county, such as are common to all
counties of state. Baltimore City v. Baltimore County, 19 Md. 562.
An. Code, sec. 4. 1904, sec. 4. 1888, sec. 4. 1852, ch. 169, sec. 3. 1854, ch. 269, sec. 4.
4. The county commissioners of the county from which such cases are
removed, at the first annual levy after the said returns are made by the
clerks, shall levy in gross for the use of the county to which said cases are
removed for trial so much of the said costs and expenses as are required
by the preceding section to he first paid by that county, and the residue
for the several parties entitled thereto by said returns.
Cited but not construed in Baltimore City v. Baltimore County, 19 Md. 561.
See art. 25, sec. 8.
An. Code, sec. 5. 1904, sec. 5. 1888, sec. 5. 1854, ch. 269, sec. 5.
5. The returns of the clerks of the courts required by this article shall
be made annually in the month of June between the first and tenth of said
month; and for each neglect by any clerk of the duties imposed by this
article in relation thereto, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars,
recoverable by indictment, one-half to the informer and the other half to
the county of which he is clerk.
Cited but not construed in Baltimore City v. Baltimore County, 19 Md. 561.
An. Code, sec. 6. 1904, sec. 6. 1888, sec. 6. 1854, ch. 269, sec. 6.
6. The preceding sections of this article shall be applicable to all cases
removed to or from the city of Baltimore; and in cases removed from said
city the returns hereinbefore required to be made to the county commis-
sioners shall be made to the mayor and city council of Baltimore, who shall
levy and pay the costs in the same manner as the county commissioners
are hereinbefore directed to levy and pay the same.
If the circumstances of case call for extra care in guarding the prisoner, the
county or city from which he is removed must pay expenses of such guard as may
be necessary, as well as expenses of his removal. Baltimore v. Howard County, 61
Md. 327.
Cited but not construed in Baltimore City v. Baltimore County, 19 Md. 561.
An. Code, sec. 7. 1904, sec. 7. 1888, sec. 7. 1781, ch. 11. 1886, ch. 46.
7. No person who may be prosecuted for any misdemeanor or offence
and discharged by the court on submission, or fined not exceeding fifteen
cents, or prosecuted for any crime and acquitted on trial by jury, shall
be burdened with the payment of any costs or fees accruing oil such prose-
cution, but all such costs and fees, with the legal costs of the party accused,
shall be paid by the county; and no person taken upon any warrant or
capias on presentment where no bill of indictment is found shall be liable
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