FRANK. BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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214 B. The sheriff aforesaid shall receive for carrying and

conveying persons to the State Penitentiary, House of Cor-

For

rection, or to or from any jail of the State, except (Anne

conveying
persons to

Arundel County) or from and to the station houses of Balti-

the peni-
tentiary.

more City, or to or from any other place of confinement

&c.

under the sentence or order of any tribunal of competent

jurisdiction, ten dollars for one person so conveyed or

carried, and five dollars for each additional person carried

at one and the same time, unless the county commissioners

shall be satisfied that extraordinary care had to be exercised

accompanied with unusual danger, trouble or expense, when

in their discretion they may allow more, the compensation

so specified to be in full of all costs and expenses of such

carrying, and provided that said sheriff be and he is hereby

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

each institution all persons sentenced to be confined at

each such respective institution at any one term of court,

said compensation to be levied for annually by the county

commissioners and paid to said sheriff. All persons con-

victed before any justice of the peace of the sixth election

district of said county and sentenced to serve a term in any

penal institution, other than the county jail, shall be carried

or conveyed to such institution by the said sheriff, and no

constable of said district shall convey any person under

sentence to any penal institution other than the county jail,

and the county commissioners are hereby prohibited from

paying said constables for the conveyance of any such per-

sons under sentence elsewhere than to the county jail; no

other fees, turnkeys' charges, perquisites or allowances

whatever shall be allowed or levied for said sheriff except

such as are allowed and specified by the Code of Public

General Laws relating to sheriffs whether the same have

heretofore been allowed by usage or not.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.