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CHAP. 5203.
Sum of
money
allowed to
the sheriff.
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fourth, the actual railway transportation charges of the sheriff,
his deputy or 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 ; fifth, a reason-
able eum not exceeding twenty cents per person summoned,
summoned to testify in Court in criminal cases during the trial
of such cases in term time when the sheriff or his deputy can-
not summon the same for want of time, and when such sum-
moned persons reside five miles from Cumberland, and the
sheriff shall show that he has actually paid such amounts to
additional deputies or constables ; sixth, the actual sum of
money expended by the sheriff in purchasing food an'd essential
clothing for the prisoners in jail ; seventh, the actual sum
expended by him for coal and other necessaries of said jail,
including a telephone ; and said County Commissioners shall
allow or pay the said sheriff for no other or further expenses
whatsoever upon any pretext, unless said unenumerated
expenditure shall have been previously and specifically ordered
by the board in session ; provided, that no allowance for
expenditures shall be paid or credited to said sheriff, the same
shall be reported under oath by said sheriff to said board of
commissioners once in each month in writing, which oath
shall show that the expenditures above enumerated when made
are correct and have been honestly and lawfully incurred, and
that the sheriff himself has not derived no profit from the
purchase thereof, or consumed or appropriated to himself or
permitted his deputy to appropriate to himself any part of
such purchases, that each expenditure or purchase was reason-
able and necessary and the price thereof was not in excess of
the market price therefor ; which report and affidavit shall be
accompanied by properly itemized vouchers or certificates
showing from whom and for what purpose the same were
made. All false swearing in such report and affidavit shall
be deemed perjury and be punished as such. The said sheriff
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Penalty for
violation.
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shall also include in said monthly report a full statement of
all tines and costs by him collected, and shall pay the same
over to the county treasurer. Any violation of the require-
ments of this Act or failure to comply therewith shall consti-
tute a misdemeanor and be punished, upon conviction, by for-
feiture of office and fine or imprisonment, or by all three, in
the discretion of the Court ; provided, that this Act shall not
apply to the present incumbent of the office of sheriff in said
county, but the same shall be in full force against his succes-
sor and successors.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 8, 1902.
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