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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

pealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read

as follows :

SEC. 22. It shall be the duty of the respective

state's attorneys of the counties of this state, in mak-

ing up their accounts against the board of county

commissioners of their respective counties, for all such

services and expenses as are properly chargeable

State services

against said board of county commissioners, to state

rendered.

fully and particularly the services rendered, and the

time and place when and where said services were

rendered, and the items of expenses incurred in the

proper discharge of their duties, which account may

include a reasonable trial fee for each case actually

tried, to be allowed in discretion of the court, as well

as the appearance fee provided by law, and a reason-

able compensation for all other services performed by

him; and which accounts, together with the affidavit

of said state's attorneys as to the correctness thereof,

and the fairness of the charges therein made, shall be

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to.

submitted by such state's attorneys to the judges of

the circuit courts of the counties for which they are

respectively the state's attorney; and it shall be the

duty of said judges to examine said accounts, and if

the items thereof are properly chargeable against said

county commissioners, and the charges are fair and

reasonable, the said judges shall endorse on said ac-

counts their certificate to that effect, upon the certifi-

Judges to cer-

cate aforesaid, of the said judges or a majority of

tify.

them being endorsed upon said accounts; the said

accounts shall be filed with the clerk of the board of

county commissioners of the respective counties, and

it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of

the respective counties to pass said accounts as certi-

fied to them by said judges or a majority thereof; and

it shall also be the duty of said county commissioners

to levy and collect, for the use of the state's attorneys

of their respective counties, the amounts of money so

as aforesaid certified by said judges or a majority of

them, to be properly chargeable by said state's attor-

neys, at the same time and in the same manner that

other county taxes are levied and collected; pro-

How construed

vided that this act shall not be construed to pre-

vent the commissioners of any county from allowing,

in their discretion, a larger sum to the state's attor-

ney of said county than the amount of the account so

allowed and certified by said court or judges.