ART. 1. ] WITNESSES. 89

WITNESSES.

1864, ch. 104.

255. Witnesses in Allegany county who shall reside more than
five miles from the place of holding the circuit court shall, in ad-
dition to the per diem allowed by law, receive eight cents for
every mile exceeding the first five, to be allowed in going to
court; but no witness shall be allowed mileage for more than once
going to said court at any one term.

P. L. L., (1860, ) art. 1, sec. 192.

256. The county commissioners shall levy annually a suffi-
cient sum, in advance, to pay the States' witnesses for said
county, and shall pay them from such levy the sums to which
the clerk of the circuit court shall certify them to be entitled,
upon the production of such certificate.

1886, ch. 465.

257. Persons living within the corporate limits of the city of
Cumberland who shall be summoned before any justice of the
peace for any of the election districts of said county lying wholly
or in part within the limits of said city, to testify in any crim-
inal proceeding pending before said justices, or who shall volun-
tarily appear without being summoned, shall not be allowed or
receive any compensation for such attendance.