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LAWS OP MARYLAND.

CHAP. 561.

Repeal
and re-enact

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section two hundred and fourteen of Article
"two of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Anne Arundel
County, " sub-title "Sheriff, " as enacted by the Acts of 1896,
chapter 354, and section two hundred and fourteen A of said
Article as enacted by the Acts of 1896, chapter 408, be and
the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as
follows:

Salary.

214. The sheriff of Anne Arundel county shall receive an
annual salary of the sum of three thousand dollars, to be paid
to him in quarterly instalments of seven hundred and fifty
dollars by the County Commissioners of Anne Arundel
county, and he shall be allowed the sum of three thousand
dollars annually, to be paid to him by the said County Com-
missjoners in quarterly instalments for the expenses of his
office, including clerk and necessary deputies to assist him in
the discharge of his duties; and the said County Commis-
sioners 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 liable in any way for any
other fee or compensation 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, and for
carrying or conveying any person or persons under sentence
to any State or county institution, or from any jail of any
other county, or the jail or station house of Baltimore city, or
to or from any other place of confinement beyond the limits
of Anne Arundel county, under the sentence or order of any
authorized authority, the said County Commissioners shall pay
the said sheriff his actual car fare or actual cost of transporta-
tion, together with the actual cost of transportation of such
persons carried or conveyed by him to or from the place
above mentioned; authorized bill for such expenses in all such
cases shall be presented under oath to said County Commis-
sioners.

Authority to
collect fees
and charges.

214 A. The sheriff of Anne Arundel county shall collect all
fees and charges which he may be entitled to by law, and
exercise all powers conferred upon him by law to enforce the
collection of the same, and shall at the first meeting of the
County Commissioners held in each month make a report of
the same under oath in such forms as said County Commis-
sioners may direct, and pay over the same upon order of said
County Commissioners; and whenever any sheriff shall
retire from office leaving uncollected any costs, fees or charges