1266 ARTICLE 4.

SHERIFFS FEES.

P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 799A. 1892, ch. 406.

825. The Sheriff of Baltimore City shall hereafter receive for the
services hereinafter recited, fees as follows:

For serving an attachment of contempt and return, one dollar and fifty
cents.

For an arrest on warrant and return in criminal cases, one dollar.
Deale v. Estep, 3 Bland, 435. Bouis v. Balto., 138 Md. 284.

See Article 36, sections 30 and 31, Code P. G. L., for sheriff's fees.

1916, ch. 253, sec. 1.

825A. Pursuant to the authority contained in an amendment to the
Constitution of Maryland adopted at the General Election held in the
year 1914, that the salary or compensation of the Sheriff of Baltimore
City beginning with the fiscal year commencing in the month of December
1915 shall be Six Thousand Dollars per year and the said Sheriff shall
have power, subject to the control and with the consent of the Comptroller
of the State, to appoint a chief deputy and such other deputies and pay
such salaries and such expenses as may be necessary for the conduct of
his office; all such salaries and such expenses to be paid out of the fees
and receipts of the said Sheriff's office as has heretofore been practiced.

STOCKS, LOANS AND FINANCE.+

1886, ch. 509. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 805.

826. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are authorized and
empowered to endorse the bonds of the Baltimore and Eastern Shore Rail-
road Company to the extent of ten thousand dollars per mile of said rail-
road, as the same is completed; provided, that no such endorsement shall
be made until an ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
authorizing and directing the same, and the terms and conditions, and
mode and manner of making said endorsement shall have been submitted

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Highways Engineer of Baltimore
City, acting through the sub-department of sewers connected with the department
of said Highways Engineer, be, and he is hereby vested with all the powers and
charged with all the duties heretofore vested in and resting upon the said Sewerage
Commission in regard to any and all portions of said Sewerage System which may
remain uncompleted on February 1. 1916, and in regard to all contracts of said
Sewerage Commission outstanding or not fully completed and performed by bott
parties thereto on said date. And that the Chief Engineer of said Sewerage Com-
mission be, and he is hereby authorized to exercise all the powers and perform all
the duties heretofore vested in him or imposed upon him by law or vested in him
or imposed upon him by any contract outstanding and not fully performed by both
parties thereto on February 1, 1916, until the completion of all such outstanding
contracts to the same extent as he could have exercised such powers or performed
such duties if this act hatl not been passed and the said Sewerage Commission had
continued in existence.

+For decisions relating to loans, rates of interest, &c., see Bond v. Balto., 116 Md.
683; Bond v. Balto., 118 Md. 159; Stanley v. Balto., 146 Md. 277; Thom v. Balto.,
154 Md. 273; Douty v. Balto., 155 Md. 125.