BALTIMORE CITY. 1061

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4. sec. 206.

350. The Criminal Court of Baltimore may appoint assistant counsel
for the State to aid in the trial of criminal or other State cases in said

court whenever in the judgment of the court the public interest requires it.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4. sec. 207.

351. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall levy and pay
such sum as in their judgment will be an adequate compensation for the
services rendered by such assistant counsel; provided, the sum levied and
paid in any single case shall not exceed one hundred dollars.*

ORPHANS' COURT.

1865, ch. 169. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 208. 1898, ch. 256. 1900, ch. 182.
1920, ch. 71. 1927, ch. 151.

352. The Judges of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore City shall each
receive the sum of sixteen dollars for every day's attendance upon the
sessions of said Orphans' Court of Baltimore City, to be paid by the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, at the end of each and every
month; and the sessions of said Orphans' Court of Baltimore City shall

continue from 11 A. AL until 3 P. M., if necessary for the transaction of
the business of the Court.

1868, ch. 20. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 209. 1900, ch. 182. 1920, ch. 125.

1927, ch. 187.

353. The Bailiffs of the said Orphans' Court of Baltimore City shall
receive a salary of Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500) per

*The following section was added by Chapter 576 of 1924: 361A. The Treasurer
of the State is hereby directed to credit to one account all sums of money which
may be received by him in pursuance of Section 1 of Article XV of the Constitu-
tion, from all of the officers counected with the administration of justice in Balti-
more City, viz: Clerks of Courts, Sheriff. State's Attorney and Register of Wills;
and is hereby directed to pay out of the money in his hands from time to time to
the credit of said account, whatever sums may be necessary to inject any deficiency
or deficiencies between the amount of fees collected by any one or more of said
officers and the amount of the salaries and other expenses authorized by law of such
officer or officers. The amounts expended for salaries and other expenses shall be

subject to the approval of the Comptroller. The Comptroller of the State shall,
from time to time, draw warrants upon the State Treasurer, payable out of the
moneys in the hands of said Treasurer to the credit of said account, for the pay-
ment of any such deficiency or deficiencies to any one or more of said officers, not
at any time to exceed the amount to the credit of said account. In the event that
the amount due to the credit of said account should not be sufficient at the end of
any year to meet the deficiency or deficiencies of any one or more of said officers,
the additional sum necessary to meet such deficiency or deficiencies shall be paid
by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to such officer or officers; and, except
as provided in this section, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore shall not be
liable for any of the salaries or expenses of any of said officers, and shall not
be liable for the fees or costs of any of said officers, except in cases where said
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is a party litigant, and is chargeable therefor
as such party litigant. In the event that the amount to the credit of said account
shall be more than sufficient to meet said deficiency or deficiencies, then the excess
to the credit of said account shall be a part of the general revenue of the State
available to meet the appropriations in the State budget.

This section held invalid in Baltimore v. O'Conor, 147 Md. 639.