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said accounts, the said accounts shall be filed with the clerk of
the board of county commissioners of the respective counties,
and it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the
respective counties to pass said accounts as certified to them
by said judges, or a majority thereof; and it shall also be the
duty of said county commissioners to levy and collect, for the
use of the State's attorneys of their respective counties, the
amounts of money so as aforesaid certified by said judges, or a
majority of them, to be properly chargeable by said States'
attorneys, at the same time and in the same manner that other
county taxes are levied and collected; provided, that this sec-
tion shall not prevent the commissioners of any county from
allowing, in their discretion, a larger sum to the State's attor-
ney of said county than the amount of the accounts so allowed
and certified by said court or judges. This section shall not
apply to Garrett county, Allegany county and Anne Arundel
county.

Goldstrom v. Floyd, 86 Md. 376.

1888, art. 10, sec. 22. 1868, ch. 285, sec. 1.

24. The comptroller of the treasury is authorized to adjust
and settle the claims of any of the State's attorneys of the
several counties and the city of Baltimore for appearance fees
in civil cases due them by the State, and for all fees similarly
due for services rendered under the opinion of the attorney
general in the matter of cases removed from said county for
trial or otherwise, and to fix and determine the amount due to
said State's attorneys, respectively, and to allow the same, and
to issue his warrant upon the treasurer for the payment of
such amounts, which said warrant the treasurer is hereby
authorized to pay.

Ibid. sec. 23. 1860, art. 11, sec. 23. 1849, ch. 28, secs. 1-3. 1856, ch. 19.

25. Whenever it shall become necessary from the absence,
sickness, resignation or death of any State's attorney, the
several courts of this State shall have power to appoint some
competent person to perform the duties of State's attorney in
conducting criminal or civil cases depending in such court
until a State's attorney shall be appointed and qualify, or be
able to attend and act in person, as the case may be, and the
person so appointed shall receive the same compensation as
the State's attorney.
McCauley v. State, 21 Md. 568.