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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 503.

AN ACT to add a new section to article two, Code of Public

Local Laws of Maryland, title "Anne Arundel county," sub-

titie "Sheriff," to come in after section two hundred and four-

teen, to be known as "Section two hundred and fourteen A."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

To add.

That the following section be and the same is hereby added to-

article two, Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Anne

Arundel county," sub-title "Sheriff," to come in after section two

hundred and fourteen, aud to be known as "Section two hundred

and fourteen A."

214 A. The sheriff of Anne Arundel county shall keep at the

jail of said county a good and substantial book, well and strongly

bound, to be supplied by the county commissioners of said county,

to be called and known as "The jail record of Anne Arundel

county," and of sufficient size for the uses for which it is intended,

the leaves of which shall be ruled in parallel columns of suffi-

cient width for the entry of the following particulars, viz.: the

full name of the person received, his color, age, height, day and

hour when received, by whom committed, offense or other cause

for which committed, and whether for a further hearing, in de-

Jail record

fault of payment of fine and cost, for action of grand jury, or

under sentence for a definite time, day and hour of release, and

by whom or by what authority released, and also a column for re-

marks, in ,vhich shall be entered any other particulars upon the

death of any person confined in said jail, the sheriff shall enter in

said record the cause of death as ascertained by the coroner's jury

or otherwise, the date of his death together with time and place

of burial or other disposition of the body of deceased; all com-

mitments to and releases from said jail shall be properly endorsed

and filed away by said sheriff, together with all other official pa-

pers or matters connected with said jail as a part of the records

of same and shall permanently remain thereat, and shall be regu-

larly turned over by the said sheriff to his successor.

Effective

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

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.