ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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214. The sheriff of Anne Arundel county shall be allowed for

keeping and boarding prisoners committed to the jail of said

county, such sum as the county commissioners shall determine,

not to exceed the sum of twenty-five cents a day for each such

prisoner; and the county commissioners shall have quarterly

accountings with the sheriff for the same, upon presentation of

his accounts for the same with proper vouchers, and shall levy

for the same annually, and said accounts shall state the exact

number of days and fractions of days each such prisoner was con-

fined within said jail, and shall be verified by the affidavit of said

sheriff; he shall also be entitled to receive from the county com-

missioners to be levied annually by them, for carrying and con-

veying persons under sentence to the State penitentiary or the

house of correction, or to or from jails of any of the counties of

the State, (except Anne Arundel county,) and the jail or station-

Sheriff's

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

fees

confinement under the sentence or final order of any authorized

judicial authority, the sum of ten dollars for one person so car-

ried or conveyed, and for each additional person so carried or con-

veyed at the same time five dollars and no more, unless the

county commissioners shall be satisfied that extraordinary care

and caution had to be exercised, accompanied with unusual danger,

trouble or expense, and said compensation so specified, shall be

held fo include all costs and expenses incident to the carrying

and conveying of such person or persons; provided, that so far as

possible the said sheriff shall convey, and shall by the commis-

sioners be held and required to convey at one and the same time

to each such institution all persons sentenced to be confined in

each such respecti re institution at any one term of court; no other

fees, turnkey charges, perquisites or allowances whatsoever shall
be granted, allowed or levied for said sheriff except such as are

specified by the Code of Public General Laws relating to sheriffs,

whether the same have been heretofore allowed by usage or not.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall not be held to

apply to the present incumbent of the office of sheriff of said

Exception

county.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 3, 1890.