1372 HARFORD COUNTY. [ART. 13.

confined in the county jail; and the county commissioners shall
make quarterly settlements with him upon the presentation of his
account for the same with proper vouchers.

1880, ch. 191.

251. He shall be entitled to receive from the county commis-
sioners, to be levied annually by them, the sum of two dollars
and a half a day for each day he shall attend the circuit court
for said county whilst in session, either in person or by deputy,
and such compensation for the 'service of any bench warrant or
attachment for contempt issued by said court as said court may
deem reasonable; he shall also receive the sum of fifteen dollars
for carrying and conveying each person under sentence to the
State penitentiary or house of correction, or to or from the jails

of any of the counties of this State, and the jails or station-houses
of the city of Baltimore, or to or from any other place of confine-
ment under the sentence or final order of any authorized judicial
authority, the sum of fifteen dollars when the distance of trans-
portation is forty miles or under, and for a greater distance
twenty dollars and no more, unless the county commissioners
shall be satisfied that extraordinary care and caution had to be

exercised, accompanied with danger, trouble and expense; and

said sheriff shall not be allowed a fee for empanelling a jury,

except in cases where he is by law required to swear and empanel
them.

1870, ch. 417.

252. It shall be the duty of the sheriff to employ a competent

physician to attend the inmates of the county jail whenever in
his judgment said inmates, by reason of sickness or otherwise,
.may require such attention.

Ibid.

253. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners to levy
annually upon the assessable property of said county, a sum of
money not exceeding one hundred dollars, to carry into effect
he provisions of the preceding section.

STATE'S; ATTORNEY.

1874, ch. 359.

254. In all criminal cases which may be tried in the circuit

court for Harford county, the judges of said court, in addition to