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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Compensa-

136. And the said sheriff shall be entitled to re-

tion for ser-

ceive from the said county commissioners, to be

vices.

levied annually by them, the sum of two dollars and

a half a day for each day he shall attend the circuit

court for said county whilst in session, either in per-

son or by deputy, and such compensation for the

service of any bench warrant or attachment for con-

tempt issued by said court as said court may deem

reasonable; he shall also receive the sum of fifteen

dollars for carrying and conveying each person under
sentence to the State Penitentiary or House of Cor-

rection, or to or from the jails of any of the counties

of this State, and the jails or station houses of the

city of Baltimore, or to or from any other place of

confinement finder the sentence or final order of any

Sum allowed.

authorized judicial authority, the sum of fifteen dol-

lars when the distance of transportation is forty miles

or under, and for a greater distance twenty dollars

and no more, unless said county commissioners shall

be satisfied that extraordinary care and caution had

to be exercised, accompanied with danger, trouble

and expense, and said sheriff shall not be allowed a

fee for empanelling a jury except in cases where he

is by law required to swear and empanel them.

Approved April 10, 1880.

CHAPTER 192.

AN ACT to extend the corporate limits of Chester-

town, Kent county, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That the corporate limits of Ches-

Extend cor-

tertown, Kent county, Maryland, be and they are
hereby extended as follows : Beginning at the north
corner of lot designated on the plat of said town as

porate limits.

number sixty-four, on the street leading from the

upper end of Chestertown to Washington College,

known as " College avenue," at a point seventeen

perches northeast from Calvert street, and running