90 ATTORNEYS. [ART. 10.

services performed by him; and which accounts, together with
the affidavit of said State's attorney as to the correctness thereof,
and the fairness of the charges therein made, shall be submitted
by such State's attorneys to the judges of the circuit courts for
the counties for which they are respectively the State's attorney
and it shall be the duty of said judges to examine said accounts,
and if the items thereof are properly chargeable against said
county commissioners, and the charges are fair and reasonable,
the said judges shall endorse on said accounts their certificate to
that effect; and upon the certificate aforesaid of the said judges,
or a majority of them, being endorsed upon said accounts, the
said accounts shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county
commissioners of the respective counties, and it shall be the duty
of the county commissioners of the respective counties to pass
said accounts as certified to them by said judges, or a majority
thereof; and it shall also be the duty of said county commis-
sioners to levy and collect, for the use of the State's attorneys of
their respective counties, the amounts of money so as aforesaid
certified by said judges, or a majority of them, to be properly
chargeable by said State's attorneys, at the same time and in the
same manner that other county taxes are levied and collected;
provided, that this section shall not prevent the commissioners of
any county from allowing, in their discretion, a larger sum to the
State's attorney of said county than the amount of the account so
allowed and certified by said court or judges. This section shall
not apply to Garrett county, for which a special law exists.

1868, ch. 285, sec. 1.

22. The comptroller of the treasury is authorized to adjust
and settle the claims of any of the State's attorneys of the several
counties and the city of Baltimore, for appearance fees in civil
cases due them by the State, and for all fees similarly due for
services rendered under the opinion of the attorney general in
the matter of cases removed from said county for trial or other-
wise, and to fix and determine the amount due to said State's.
attorneys, respectively, and to allow the same, and to issue his,
warrant upon the treasurer for the payment of such amounts,
which said warrant the treasurer is hereby authorized to pay.