38 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 15

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 450 of Article 13 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Harford County, "
sub-title "Sheriff, " be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendment, said amended section to read
as follows:

Sec. 450. The Board of County Commissioners of Har-
ford County are authorized and directed to levy for and
pay to the Sheriff of Harford County, annually, in equal
monthly payments, the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars,
and said Sheriff shall also be allowed the sum of three
thousand dollars annually, to be levied by said Board
of County Commissioners in equal monthly payments,
for all expenses of his office, including one regular
deputy, clerical force and assistance, and other neces-
sary deputies to assist him in the discharge of his
duties, which sums shall be in full for all claims of said
Sheriff against Harford County or said Board of County
Commissioners, for his care, labor, responsibility and ex-
pense in discharging the duties of his office, including the
keeping safe in jail the prisoners committed to his custody,
the cooking and serving to said prisoners, the provisions
provided for them by said Sheriff, the necessary washing
for said prisoners and keeping the jail in cleanly condition;
and said Board of County Commissioners shall not pay
said Sheriff for any services he may render in the discharge
of his official duties any further or other compensation,
and shall not be in any way liable for any other fee or com-
pensation, whatever, to said Sheriff than as above provided
for the discharge of his official duties, except as follows:
For every execution of the sentence of death by said
Sheriff upon any person convicted of a capital offense, they
shall pay him the sum of three hundred dollars; for carry-
ing and conveying any person or persons under sentence
to any State institution or to or from any jail of any other
County or to the jail or station houses of the City of Balti-
more, or to or from any other place of confinement beyond
the limits of Harford County, under the sentence or final
order of any authorized judicial authority, the said Board
of County Commissioners, shall pay unto the said Sheriff
his actual car fare or actual costs of transportation, to-
gether with the actual car fare or actual cost of trans-
portation of such person or persons so carried or conveyed
to the place or places above mentioned, and except also the
allowance for the keeping and boarding of prisoners con-
fined in the jail of Harford County as hereinafter provided,