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ARTICLE XXXVIII.

fees of Officers.

ACCOUNTS. 1. How accounts for fees to be made out: when to be approved by circuit court.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. 17. Fees. 18. Fees in criminal cases.

ACCOUNTS.

1870, c. 441 repeals and re-enacts with amendments section 1.

SEC. 1. All accounts for officers' fees shall be made out in a fair and clear manner, and in words at length ; and whenever any person interested in them, or to whom the same shall be charged, shall require a copy of such account, the several officers herein named 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 by any of the several officers herein named, 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

1870, c. 441. How accounts for fees to be made out.

approved by the judges of the circuit court of said county, or a majority thereof, as in accordance with the provisions of this article.

When to be ap- proved by cir- cuit court.

Section 2 provides that the act shall only apply to the counties of Caroline, Kent,
Talbot, Frederick, Prince George's, Queen Anne's, Charles and Harford.

Approved and in force April 4,1870.

CONSTABLES.

1870, c. 196 continues in force 1865, c. 67, an act to regulate and1 make uniform the
fees of constables. [Sup. 1861-7, p. 116 et aeq ]

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

1870, o. 164 repeals sections 17, 18 and 19, and adopts in lieu thereof the following:

17. The justices of the peace of this state shall be entitled to receive the fees allowed in the following

1870,c.164, s.2. Fees.