40 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 17
CHAPTER 17.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, Section
494 of Article 12 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Garrett County, " sub-
title "Sheriff, " reducing the cost of keeping and board-
ing prisoners committed to the County Jail.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 494 of Article 12 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Gar-
rett County, " sub-title "Sheriff, " be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments to read as follows:

494. The County Commissioners of Garrett County
shall allow said Sheriff each year, first, the actual railway
transportation charges of the Sheriff, his deputies, and the
actual cost of railway tickets of the prisoners, necessary in
the conveyance of said prisoners to the institution to which
they are committed; second, the sum of forty cents
per day for keeping and boarding each prisoner committed
to the County Jail; third, the actual sum expended by him
for coal and other necessaries of said jail, including a tele-
phone, and said County Commissioners shall allow or pay
the Sheriff for no other or further expenses of the Sheriff
or any of his deputies upon any pretext, unless said un-
enumerated expenditures shall have been previously and
specifically ordered by the board in session; provided, no
allowance for expenditures shall be paid or credited to said
Sheriff; the same shall be reported under oath by said
Sheriff to the said Board of Commissioners once in each
month in writing, which oath shall show that the expendi-
tures above enumerated when made are correct and have
been honestly and lawfully incurred, and that the Sheriff
himself has not derived profit from the purchase thereof,
or consumed or appropriated to himself any part of such
purchase; that each expenditure or purchase was reason-
able and necessary, and the price thereof was not in ex-
cess of the market price therefor; which report and af-
fidavit shall be accompanied by properly itemized vouchers
or certificates showing from whom and for what purpose
the same was made. The said Sheriff shall also include in
said monthly report a full statement of all fines and costs
by him collected, and shall pay the same over promptly to
the County Treasurer. Any violation of the requirements
of this Act or failure to comply herewith shall constitute a
misdemeanor, and shall be punished upon conviction by