WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1901

known as Sections 389, 389A, 389B, 389C, 389D, 389E, 389F,
390, 390A, 390B, all aforesaid sections to read as follows:

389. The Sheriff of Wicomico County shall receive an
annual salary of the sum of not less than Three Thousand
Dollars ($3,000.00) to be paid to him in monthly installments
of Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00), by the County Com-
missioners of Wicomico County and may be increased at any
time by the said County Commissioners from county funds
and he shall be allowed sums not less than in the aggregate
Six Thousand Dollars ($6,000.00) for any one year for all
expenses of his office including automobile mileage allow-
ance, telephone and telegraph expense, clerical assistance,
and necessary deputies to assist in the discharge of his
duties, except the salary of a chief deputy, matron and cook
which are hereinafter provided for, the said account for
office expenses and deputies to be paid monthly by the County
Commissioners of said Wicomico County but only upon the
presentation to them by the Sheriff of a full and complete
statement under oath setting forth all of the items of said
expense accounts for the month in question, including the
names of all deputies and the amounts allowed to each and
all other items of expense, which statement under oath it is.
hereby made the duty of the Sheriff to make up and submit to
the said County Commissioners at the time of each monthly
requisition, which sum or sums shall be in lieu of all ex-
penses, fees and costs now or heretofore allowed the Sheriff
of Wicomico County for expenses in carrying out the duties;
of his office including all expenses for transferring prisoners
to and from penal institutions and places of confinement
in the State of Maryland under sentence or order of any
authorized authority, and the said County Commissioners
shall not pay the said Sheriff for any service he may render
in the discharge of Ms official duties any other or further
compensation and shall not be liable in any way for any
other fee or compensation whatever to said Sheriff, than is
above provided for the discharge of his official duties and
the expenses of his office except for the boarding and keeping
of prisoners in the county jail as hereinafter provided.

389A. In computing the said monthly account for ex-
penses, the Sheriff of Wicomico County shall be allowed
mileage at the rate of not less than Six Cents (6c) per mile
for the use of his automobile or the automobile of his chief
deputy or any of his deputies in the discharge of their
official duties, and he shall be allowed his actual carfare
mileage, as aforesaid, in the transporting of all prisoners
to and from penal institutions and places of confinement in