ART. 20.] STATE'S ATTORNEY—SHERIFF. 1833

in their discretion, upon the petition of twenty or more respect-
able freeholders within any road district, to levy upon the.assess-
able property within such road district an additional and special
tax of not more than five cents in the hundred dollars; provided,
the said county commissioners, after fully investigating and in-
quiring into the need of said special tax for the purposes
of said road in said road district, as set forth in said peti-
tion, shall determine said special tax to be necessary, and for
the best interest of the people in said district, and said tax shall be
expended under the directions of the said commissioners within
said district; and it shall be the duty of the collector of county taxes
to collect the same, and his bond shall be responsible therefor;
and the said taxes shall be collected with the other taxes of the
county, but a separate account kept of the same; and the expense
of collecting said special tax shall be levied upon and paid by
the assessable property in said road district.

STATE'S ATTORNEY.

1872, ch. 875.

238. Sometime during the month of May in each year, the
State's attorney for Somerset county shall make out and present
to the judges of the circuit court for Somerset county, or any one
of them, a full and accurate statement of all charges and claims
for work performed as State's attorney for the year ending at the
date of the making of the said statement; and the said judge shall
examine said statement, and fix and determine what shall be a
proper and adequate compensation to the said State's attorney for
the work therein set forth, and shall certify the said amount to
the county commissioners, to be by them levied at the next ensu-
ing levy, for the use of the said State's attorney; provided, how-
ever, that such recommendation, so far as aforesaid to be made,
shall not bind the said commissioners, but they shall have full
power to increase or diminish said amount at their sound dis-
cretion.

SHERIFF.

1878, ch. 254.

239. The sheriff of Somerset county shall receive for the
keeping of prisoners committed to his custody, and for their