4492 ARTICLE 20.

and upon indictment and conviction of such offense in the Circuit Court
for Somerset county, be fined not less than twenty nor more than fifty
dollars, or be confined in the county jail of the county, and be subject to
the same penalty of hard labor for a period equal to the unexpired term
of the prisoner so escaping, or both, in the discretion of the court.

STATE'S ATTORNEY.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 238. 1872, oh. 375. 1906, ch. 280, sec. 238.

390. In all criminal cases in the Circuit Court for Somerset County,
in which the State's Attorney shall appear for the State of Maryland, an
appearance fee for said State's Attorney, as now allowed under the existing
laws of this State, shall be taxed as part of the costs by the court trying said
cases, and when collected from the party (or parties liable therefor) shall
be paid over by the clerk of said court to the County Commissioners of
Somerset county, to be applied by them to the payment of the salary of the
State's Attorney as hereinafter provided for.

Tull v. Sterling, 133 Md. 164.

1906, oh. 280, sec. 238-A.

391. The State's Attorney of said Somerset county in lieu of the fees
heretofore received by him, as provided for in any local law for Somerset
county, or in any general law of the State, shall receive a salary of one
thousand dollars per annum as full compensation for his entire services
as required by him by law or which may hereafter be required of him by
any law of this State, to be paid to him by the County Commissioners of
Somerset county.

1906, ch. 280, sec. 238B.

392. The said salary of one thousand dollars per annum shall be paid
to the said State's Attorney by the said County Commissioners in equal
quarterly instalments the first day of January, April, July and October,
in each and every year, and the said County Commissioners shall levy
annually the said sum of one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, for the purpose of paying the said salary to the said State's
Attorney.*

SHERIFF.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 20, sec. 239. 1S7S, ch. 254. 1914, ch. 148. 1918, ch. 159.

393. The Sheriff of Somerset County shall receive for the keeping of
prisoners, committed to his custody, and for their victuals, such sum as to
the County Commissioners of said county shall seem proper, but in no case
shall the sum allowed exceed the sum of sixty cents per head per day.

*Sec. 238C, ch. 280, 1906, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.