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expedient, which may hereafter be located in the town and shall employ
not less than twenty hands.

SHERIFF.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 359. 1880, ch. 303. 1894, ch. 243. 1918, ch. 42.

753. The sheriff of Washington County shall be entitled to fifty cents
per day for keeping each prisoner that may be confined in the jail of said
county, and shall be allowed for necessary fuel for the jail and house
attached thereto, such sum as the County Commissioners may deem right
and proper; and the County Commissioners shall levy upon the assessable
property of the county a sum sufficient to pay for keeping the prisoners
and for the necessary fuel aforesaid; but it shall not be hereafter lawful
for the sheriff to make or collect any charge for receiving in or releasing
from the jail in said county any prisoner.

P. L. L,., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 360. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 293.

754. He shall be entitled to fifty cents each for the delivery to the
trustees of the poor of certificates of their appointment.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 361. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 294.

755. The county commissioners shall not allow or order the payment
of any account for paper or stationery for said sheriff.

1904, ch. 371.

756. The sheriff of Washington County shall, within ninety days from
the conviction and sentence of any and all prisoners by the Circuit Court
for Washington County, when the penalty is a fine and costs imposed by
the court, or the prisoners committed into the hands of the sheriff until fine
and costs are paid, make a return to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Wash-
ington County in each case, on the criminal docket of said court as follows :
When the fine and costs imposed shall be collected by the said sheriff, viz.:
"Fine and costs paid and prisoner discharged," or in case the said prisoner
so committed into the hands of the said sheriff shall be insolvent and
serves the time regulated by existing law, in the jail of said county, in
payment of said fine and costs, then and in that event the said sheriff shall
make a return to the Clerk of said court as follows, viz.: "Prisoner served
his time in jail and discharged," and the said sheriff shall also make
returns within the same time to the said Clerk of said court from the date
of their forfeiture in all recognizance at any and all times of said court in
each particular case as follows: "Amount of bond collected," or what
deposition* he has made of said forfeited recognizance, and each of said
returns shall be signed by the sheriff of said county, and the Clerk of the
said court shall note upon the criminal docket in each particular case
thereon the returns thus made to him by the said sheriff of said county,
and upon the failure of the sheriff to so make said returns as required by

* "Disposition" evidently intended.