498 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the said County Commissioners in monthly instalments for the
expenses of his office, including clerk and the necessary depu-
ties to assist him in the discharge of his duties, and he shall be
allowed the further sum of three hundred dollars annually for
transferring prisoners to and from penal institutions and
places of confinement in the State of Maryland. He shall col-
lect all fees and charges to which he may be entitled by law, and
exercise all powers conferred upon him by law to enforce the
collection of the same, and shall at the end of each month dur-
ing his term of office make a sworn report of the same to the
County Commissioners of Baltimore county in such form as
said Commissioners may direct, and pay over the same to the
Treasurer of Baltimore county upon the order of said Commis-
sioners, and whenever any Sheriff shall retire from office, leav-
ing uncollected any costs, fees and charges lawfully payable to
him, his successor shall collect and pay over the same, and it
shall be the duty of the Sheriff to keep in his office in such books
as may be required an official record of the fees and charges to
be collected by him, and those which shall have been collected
and such books shall remain in his office after the expiration
of his term for the use of his successor.

378. In all criminal cases which may be removed from
the Criminal Court of Baltimore to the Circuit Court for Balti-
more county and tried, it may be lawful for the judge of said
Circuit Court to allow to the State's Attorney for Baltimore
county, in addition to the sum allowed by law, such compensa-
tion, not exceeding the sum of thirty dollars for any one case, as
the said judge may deem just and proper, to be levied and col-
lected from the city of Baltimore.

379. All the offenses committed within the limits of Balti-
more county, except treason, misprison of treason, arson, burg-
lary, larceny, manslaughter, mayhem, murder, rape, robbery,
sodomy, and all other felonies, may be prosecuted, upon order
of the Circuit Court for Baltimore county on information, on
behalf of the State filed by the State's Attorney for said county
in said county.

380. The clerk of said court shall, upon order of the State's
Attorney for said county, issue summons for witnesses to ap-
pear at the time and place to be designated in said order, and
the said court shall have the same power as provided by section
seven and eight of article thirty-five of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of this State to secure and compel the attendance and
testimony of said witnesses, and all witnesses so summoned and
appearing and taking the oath hereinafter provided shall re-
ceive the same compensation allowed to witnesses summoned
and attending before the grand inquest for said county.