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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 332.

AN ACT to repeal section one hundred and forty

of article nine of the Public Local Laws relating

to Charles county, title " Sheriffs," and to re-

enact the same with amendments, and to add

an additional section thereto, to be known as

sub-section one.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That section one hundred and forty

Repealed and

of article nine of the Public Local Laws relating

re-enacted.

to Charles county, title " Sheriffs," be and the

same is hereby repealed and re-enacted to read

as follows :

SEC. 140. Be it enacted by the General Assembly,

That the Sheriff of Charles county shall receive

Compensa-
tion per head.

for the keeping of prisoners committed to his cus-
tody, and for their victuals, the sum of thirty
cents per head per day, and the County Commis-

sioners for Charles county shall in no case allow a

greater compensation.

SUB-SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly,

That the Sheriff of Charles county may be al-

lowed, for the removal of a convict to the peniten-

Allowance
for removal of

tiary, the sum of thirty dollars, and for every ad-
ditional prisoner convicted at the same term of

convict.

court, and sentenced to the penitentiary, he may

be allowed a sum not exceeding ten dollars per

head, and said compensation shall include all ex-

penses incident to the removal of said convict or

convicts, nothing herein contained to interfere

with any order of the court requiring the Sheriff

to remove a prisoner at any other time.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the General Assembly

When effec-

of Maryland, That this act shall take effect from

tive.

and after the fourth day of November, eighteen

hundred and seventy-nine.

Approved April 5, 1878.