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warden. Said warden shall be allowed a sum not exceeding sixty cents
per day for the keeping and boarding of each prisoner placed in said jail,
and the said warden shall present his bill for the said keeping and board
of said prisoners to the County Commissioners with the proper vouchers
therefor quarterly, whereupon said County Commissioners shall issue their
certificate to the County Treasurer for the payment thereof. It shall be
the duty of the Sheriff to keep in his office an official record to be retained
there by him, and such book or books as may be required to show all fees
and charges to be collected by him, and those which may have been col-
lected; whenever, in the judgment of the Sheriff, it shall be expedient and
necessary for the safety and welfare of the county for him to appoint,
temporarily an extra number of deputy sheriffs, he is hereby authorized to
appoint them, and it shall be the duty of the County Commissioners to
allow and pay such reasonable fee or compensation as in their judgment
they may deem proper for the services rendered by such deputy sheriffs,
but in no case shall such deputy sheriffs continue to serve longer than the
necessity of the case actually warrants.

1908, ch. 258, sec. 125 (p. 868). 1910, ch. 14, sec. 125 (p. 902).

294. It shall be the duty of the Sheriff to attend, either in person or
by deputy, the sessions of the Circuit Court, sitting either in law or equity,
and the Orphans' Court, or either of them, whenever they are in session,
and he or his deputy shall perform the duties of bailiff of the Orphans'
Court whenever so required by the said Orphans' Court.

1904, ch. 305.

295. The Sheriff of Howard County shall be allowed the sum of three
hundred dollars for each and every criminal hanged under due process of
law in Howard County; and the Sheriff aforesaid shall be allowed six
deputies, if he shall deem their services necessary for any such hanging;
and the said Sheriff shall render to the County Commissioners of Howard
County an itemized account of his expenses attending every such hanging.

As to hangings, see Art. 27, secs. 405-414, of Annotated Code of Md. (1924 Ed.).

STATE'S ATTORNEY.

1908, ch. 327 (p. 870). 1916, ch. 298, sec. 1.

296. The State's Attorney for Howard County shall receive an annual
salary of Twelve Hundred Dollars ($1,200), for the performance of the
official duties of the said office, which now are or may be required by law,
said salary to be in lieu of all salary, appearance and trial, and all other
compensations for same, and to be payable semi-annually, on the first day
of January and first day of July by the County Treasurer, upon the order
of the County Commissioners, and said duty shall also include his services
before the Justice of the Peace of said County, criminal cases, in prelim-
inary hearings or trials, when, in the public interests, he attends on his
own motion, or at the request of any of the said Justices, and shall include