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account, said officers shall in as short a time as may be convenient, give
him an account of said charges in words at length; and no account for
officers' fees, rendered for services to or in behalf of any county of this
State, shall be allowed by the county commissioners thereof, until said
account has been submitted to and approved by the circuit court for said
county.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. IS, sec. 210. 1876, oh. 216.

313. The preceding section shall only apply to the counties of Queen
Anne's, Prince George's, Kent, Caroline, Talbot, Charles, Harford and
Dorchester.

ORPHANS' COURT.

1904, ch. 454. 1918, ch. 24

314. The Judges of the Orphans' Court of Queen Anne's County shall
each receive the sum of seven dollars ($7.00) for every day's attendance
upon the sessions of said Court, to be paid by the County Commissioners,
of said Queen Anne's County in quarterly payments, and in addition
thereto there shall be paid to the said Judges the sum of five cents per
mile for each mile traveled by them in going to and returning from the
said sessions of said Orphans' Court, to be paid by the said County Com-
missioners of Queen. Anne's County upon the certificate of the Register
of Wills for said county; provided, that no Judge of said Court shall re-
ceive in any one year as compensation for his services a sum exceeding,
five hundred dollars.*

OUT-PENSIONERS.+

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 18, sec. 211. 1860, Art. 17, sec. 101.

315. The trustees of the poor of said county shall expend for the
relief of such persons as they may judge proper to place on the list of
indigent out-pensioners of said county, the sum of one thousand dollars,
annually; provided, that no more than thirty dollars be expended on any
one person.

1904, ch. 38.

316. The County Commissioners of Queen Anne's County shall not
hereafter pay any pension, or levy any sum of money upon the taxable

*Sec. 2, ch. 24, 1918, repealed ch. 454, 1904, and all other laws inconsistent there-
with.

+The following Acts authorized the county commissioners to pay pensions to the
persons indicated: 1890, ch. 31, E. H. Cray; 1890, ch. 92, J. F. White; 1892, oh. 26,
G. T. Baxter; 1892, ch. 52, J. T. Jones; 1892, ch. 559, John Blackstone; 1894, ch. 27,
Samuel De Coursey; 1896, ch. 137, S. R. Story; 1896, ch. 333, Hynson Cole, Sr.;
1896, ch. 454, John Gray; 1898, ch. 35, James Homey; 1898, ch. 40, L. W. Clough;
1898, ch. 48, James Reed; 1904, ch. 40, A. Smith; 1904, ch. 448, W. H. Nichols;
1904, ch. 566, James Godwin; 1910. ch. 708 (p. 1048), W. D. Harrington; 1910, ch. 586
(p. 1049), J. H. Sparks; 1912, ch. 704, J. A. Satterfield; 1912, ch. 725, Sadie Crispin;
1912, ch. 726, W. F. Gleaves; 1916, ch. 120, Percy Towers; 1920, ch. 34, D. L. Knight;
1929, ch. 309, Percy Towers.