390 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

1884. ch. 119.

307. Such fines shall be divided equally among those incor-
porated dispensaries which shall, within ten days after the tenth
of November in each year, file in the office of the sheriff of Balti-
more city separate reports, the truth of each of which shall be
sworn to by one of the officers of the dispensary filing the same,
before any officer of the State of Maryland authorized by law to
administer oaths, showing that in the year preceding such tenth
day of November, the said dispensary had under its charge more
than two thousand separate persons as patients, and that said dis-
pensary was open for the treatment of disease two hours daily,
and the free distribution of medicines to the poor, six hour-
daily during the months of November, December, January, Feb-
ruary, March and April, and eight hours daily during the remain-
ing months, and two continuous hours on each Sunday in said
year.

Ibid.

308. In case said fines shall not be claimed by any such dis-
pensary in the manner specified in the two preceding sections,
then said fines shall be paid by the said sheriff to the mayor and
city council of Baltimore.

Ibid.

309. The said sheriffs official bond shall be responsible for
the faithful payment of said money as hereinbefore provided,
and shall be liable for any default in any duty herein required to
be performed by him.

F. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 234.

310. No person shall hereafter be allowed to give security for
the payment of any fine and costs imposed by the criminal court
of Baltimore, but any person who shall be sentenced by the court
to the payment of any fine and costs shall stand committed until
they are paid ; provided, that if such fine and costs are less than
ten dollars, the person so sentenced shall be discharged from
custody at the end of thirty days from the date of their imposi-
tion, if no imprisonment has also been ordered by the court, or at
the end of thirty days from the expiration of the time for which
said person shall have been ordered to be imprisoned, upon suf-