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legany County, " sub-title "Sheriff, " as the same were en-
acted by Chapter 202, Acts of 1902, and Chapter 213, Acts
of 1904.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 227 of Article 1 of the Code of Public Local
Laws, entitled "Allegany County, " sub-title "Sheriff, " as the
same was enacted by the Acts of 1902 and 1904, Chapters 202
and 213, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments, so as to read as follows:

227. The County Commissioners for Allegany County shall
allow the Sheriff of Allegany County each year: First—A sum
not exceeding twenty-six hundred and forty dollars, for two dep-
uties at an annual salary of thirteen hundred and twenty dollars
each. Second—Three hundred and sixty dollars' for a cook to
the jail. Third—The actual railroad charges of the Sheriff
and the several Deputies Sheriff and the actual cost of railroad
tickets of the prisoners necessary for the conveyance of said
prisoners. Fourth—A reasonable sum not exceeding twenty
cents per person summoned by the Circuit Court for Allegany
County to testify in criminal cases in said Court during the
trial of such cases in the term for which they are summoned,
and when the Sheriff or his Deputies cannot summon said wit^
nesses for want of time or when they reside and are five miles
from the City of Cumberland, Md., when the Sheriff shall show
that he actually paid such amounts to his Deputies or Con-
stables. Fifth—The actual sum of money expended by the
Sheriff in purchasing food, necessary clothing for the prison-
ers at the jail, and coal, gas, telephone, and said County
Commissioners shall allow said Sheriff no other expenses what-
soever, upon any pretext, unless allowed, directed and ordered
by the Board in regular session; provided, that no allowance
for expenses shall be paid or credited to the said Sheriff or for
his account unless the same shall be reported under oath to
the County Commissioners at each month in writing, which
oath shall show all the expenditures and that they are correct
and have been honestly and lawfully incurred and that the
Sheriff himself has not derived any profit from the purchase
thereof, nor has consumed or appropriated to himself or has
permitted his deputies to so appropriate to themselves any
part of said purchases; that each expenditure and purchase
was reasonable and necessary and the price thereof was not in
excess of the market price, which said report and affidavit
shall be accompanied by properly itemized vouchers or certifi-