ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 201
day of May, 1908, to be paid him in quarterly install-
ments of three hundred and seventy-five dollars by the
County Commissioners of Howard County, and he shall ap-
point one deputy sheriff who shall receive an annual salary
of three hundred dollars, payable in quarterly installments
by the County Commissioners. The Sheriff shall collect all
fees and charges to which he may be entitled 'by law, and ex-
ercise all powers conferred upon him by law to enforce the
collection of same, and shall at the end of each month
during his term of office make a sworn report of the same
to the County Commissioners of Howard County, in such
form as said Commissioners of Howard County may di-
rect, and pay over the same to the County Commissioners
of Howard County; whenever any Sheriff shall retire from
office leaving any costs, fees or charges uncollected, law-
fully payable to him, his successor shall collect and pay
over the same. He shall appoint a warden of the county
jail who shall be under his supervision and direction, who
shall take charge of the jail and carefully and securely
guard all prisoners who shall be placed in said jail, which
said warden shall receive the sum of five hundred dollars
annually as salary for his services as such warden. Said
warden shall be allowed a sum not exceeding sixty cents
per day for the keeping and boarding of each prisoner
placed in said jail, and the said warden shall present his
bill for the said keeping and board of said prisoners to the
County Commissioners with the proper vouchers therefor
quarterly, whereupon said County Commissioners shall
issue their certificate to the County Treasurer for the pay-
ment thereof. It shall be the duty of the Sheriff to keep
in his office an official record to be retained there by him,
and such book or books as may be required to show all
fees and charges to be collected by. him, and those which
may have been collected; whenever, m the judgment of
the Sheriff, it shall be expedient, to appoint temporarily an
extra number of deputy sheriffs, he is hereby, authorized
to appoint them, and it shall, be the duty of the County
Commissioners to allow and pay such, reasonable fee or
compensation as in, their judgment they may deem, proper
for the services rendered by such deputy sheriffs, but in
no case shall such deputy sheriff continue to serve longer
than the necessity of the case actually warrants.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this Act, shall take
effect June 1, 1933.
Approved April 21, 1933.
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