4518 ARTICLE 21.

1922, ch. 133, sec. 3.

53. The said Court Library .Fund to be levied, appropriated and paid
over by the said County Commissioners of Talbot County to the said
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Talbot County as hereinbefore provided
shall be used and expended by or for said Circuit Court for Talbot County
in acquiring, caring for and maintaining a Library and Library facilities
for said court, its judges, officers and members of the Bar, the said Fund
to be disbursed by said Clerk upon written authority of the judges of
said Court or any one of them; provided, however, that said Court or its
judges may, by written order appoint and designate three members of the
Bar residing in Talbot County, who shall be called or known as the
Library Committee of the Circuit Court for Talbot County, which Com-
mittee shall have power and authority to supervise and provide for the
purchase, care and maintenance of said Library and Library Facilities and
to authorize in writing the disbursement by said Clerk of said funds; and
provided further that the said Court or its judges may by written order fill
any vacancy which may occur in said Library Committee and may at any
time appoint an entire new Committee.

1904, ch. 178, sec. 1.

54. One-half of all forfeitures and fines, penalties imposed and recog-
nizances forfeited by the Circuit Court for Talbot County shall be paid to
the clerk of said court, to be expended under the direction of the judges

of said court, for the augmentation of the library of said court.

1904, ch. 178, sec. 2.

55. The other or remaining one-half of all such fines, penalties and
forfeitures mentioned in Section 54 of this subtitle shall be paid by the
sheriff, State's Attorney, or other officer or person whose duty it is to
collect or receive the same, to the County Commissioners of Talbot
County for the use of said county, except in such cases where a portion
of any fine, penalty or forfeiture is by law made payable to an informer

or informers, in which case, after the payment to the informer or in-
formers of such portion of said fines, penalties or forfeitures as is by law
directed to be made, the balance of said fines, forfeitures or penalties
is to be paid to the clerk of said court, to be applied by him to the pur-
poses mentioned in Section 54 of this subtitle.

1904, oh. 178, sec. 3.

56. The provisions of this Act shall apply to all forfeitures, fines, pen-
alties and forfeited recognizances now due or hereinafter to become due
and payable either by the parties themselves or from any officer, officers,
person or persons who may have any sum or sums of money in hand
received or collected as a fine, forfeiture or penalty as aforesaid, and that
the provisions of this Act are intended to apply to all fines, forfeitures,
penalties and forfeited recognizances, whether the same are imposed or
provided for under any statute of this State or under the common law.