ART. 15. ] MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 687

CIRCUIT COURT.

1864, c. 347 repeals section 30 and enacts the following in lieu thereof:

30. There shall be two terms of the circuit court for Montgomery county in each year, and they shall commence and be held at Rockville, in said county, on the first Monday of February, and the second Monday of August. 1 In force from March, 1864.

1861, c. 347. Terms.

JAIL.

1862, c. 6, provides that the commissioners of Montgomery county are authorized
to cause the sheriff of Montgomery county to remove the prisoners now in his cue-
tody, or who may be hereafter in bis custody, to the custody of the sheriff of Frede-
rick county, and it is hereby made the duty of the sheriff of Frederick county, to
receive said prisoners, and that the said sheriff of Frederick county, is authorized to
employ a watchman to guard said jail, if in his judgment such a guard is deemed
necessary, and the salary for such guard shall be levied and collected and paid to
said sheriff by the county commissioners of Frederick and Montgomery counties
respectively in proportion to the number of prisoners confined therein by each during
the year: provided, that the salary of said watchman shall not exceed one dollar per
night, and that the employment of such watchman shall cease on the completion and
occupancy of the jail in Montgomery county. That the county commissioners for
Montgomery county shall levy, collect and pay to the sheriff of Frederick county,
twenty-five cents per day for each prisoner committed to the jail of Frederick county
under the provisions of this act, and such other fees as are allowed by laws in such
cases to said sheriff 1862, c. 1 provides that the commissioners of Montgomery
county are authorized and empowered to borrow, upon the credit of the county, a
sum of money not exceeding five thousand dollars, for the purpose of building a jail.
That the said commissioners are authorized to levy upon said county, a tax on the
assessable property of said county, to reimburse the said loan, not more than one
thousand dollars, and interest to he raised m any one year, until the said loan is
paid off. That the said commissioners are authorized to adopt such plans and make
such contracts, and do all other acts necessary in the erection and completion of the
said jail, with as little delay as practicable.

ORPHANS' COURT.

1861, c. 60 providing for the compensation of the judges of the Orphans' Court is
repealed by 1865, c. 169 which act repeals all sections of the articles of the Public
Local Laws relating to the pay and mileage of the judges of the orphans' courts of
the state and fixes a uniform compensation. See the act under Public General
Laws, Art. XCIII, Testamentary Law, Orphans' Court.