270 BALTIMORE COUNTY. [ART. 3.

1883, ch. 278.

268. All articles hereinbefore enumerated, seized and con-
demned under the provisions of any of the sections of this sub-
title of this article, shall be sold by the constable or sheriff, or
other officer of the county in which such condemnation may be
made, at public sale, to the highest bidder for cash, after giving
twenty days' notice of the time and place of such sale by adver-
tisement in one newspaper in the county where such condem-
nation may be made, and by written or printed notice posted
up at four of the most public places within two miles of the
place of said sale; and the proceeds of such sale, after deducting
all the legal expenses of seizure, condemnation and sale, shall be
divided as follows, to wit: one-half to the informer and the other
half to the commissioners of said county, for the benefit of the
school fund of said county; if among the articles so seized and
condemned there shall be a big or swivel gun, the same shall not
be sold, but shall at once be destroyed or rendered useless by the
officer in custody thereof.

WITNESSES.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 3, sec. 209.

269. The clerk of the circuit court shall make out annually,
before the time of making the county levy, a list of the State's
witnesses who have attended at said court, with the number of
days they have attended thereon, and lay said list before the
county commissioners.

Ibid. sec. 210.

270. The county commissioners shall, at the usual time of
making the county levy, levy such sum of money as may appear
from the said list to be due to persons for their attendance as
State's witnesses, which sum of money shall be paid over to the
several persons entitled thereto by the treasurer of the county,
upon presentation of the certificate of the clerk of said court of
the attendance of State's witnesses, and the sums respectively due

therefor.

Ibid. sec. 212

271. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive
the circuit court for said county of the discretionary power of
Ordering the costs of any case, including the attendance of State's
witnesses, to be paid by the defendant, or to disallow any wit-
ness's attendance.