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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Sections
added.

Code of Public Local Laws, title "Anne Arundel County,"

sub-title " Sheriff," as they appear in chapter three hundred

and ninety -five and five hundred and three of the acts of 1890,

be and the same are hereby repealed and re enacted with

amendments, and that a new section, be and the same is

hereby added to said article to follow section 214 A, to be

designated section 214 B, and to read as to said several sec-

tion as follows :

214. The Sheriff of Anne Arundel County shall be allowed

Boarding

for keeping and boarding prisoners committed to the jail of

prisoners
of Anne

said county, the sum of thirty cents a day for each such

Arundel
County.

prisoner, and the county commissioners shall have quarterly

accountings with the sheriff for the same upon preseutation

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

levy annually a sum sufficient for the payment of the same,

and said account shall state the number of days and fractions

of days each such prisoner was confined within said jail

which shall be verified by the affidavit of said sheriff.

214 A. The said sheriff shall keep at the jail a substantial

Jail record

well-bound book (to be supplied by said county commis-

book.

sioners) to be called "Jail record book of Anne Arundel

County," the leaves whereof shall be ruled in parallel col-

umns 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, and whether for a

further hearing, in default of payment of fine and costs, for

the action of the grand jury or under sentence for a definite

time, the day and hour of release and by what authority

released ; also a columu for " Remarks " in which shall be

entered any other particulars ; in case of death of any per-

son 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 such death, together with the time

and place of burial or other disposition of the body of said

deceased ; all commitments to and releases from jail shall be

properly endorsed and filed away by said sheriff, together

with all other official papers or matters connected with said

jail as part of the records thereof and shall permanently

remain thereat, and be turned over by each successive sheriff

to his successor, and as compensation to said sheriff for

making and keeping such record book, he shall receive one

dollar, for each prisoner so received, registered and released,

which said amount shall be levied by the county commis-

sioners at their annual levy in each year, and paid by them

quarterly, upon said sheriff presenting his vouchers duly

sworn to.