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be an emergency law and necessary for the immediate preserva-
tion of the public health and safety.

Approved April 2nd, 1918.

CHAPTER 42.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 359-
of Article 22 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland>
entitled "Washington County, " sub-title "Sheriff. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 359 of Article 22 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, entitled "Washington County, " sub-
title "Sheriff, " be, and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, so as to read as follows:

Section 359. The sheriff of Washington County shall be en-
titled to fifty cents per day for keeping each prisoner
that may be confined in the jail of said county, and shall be
allowed for necessary fuel for the jail and house attached there-
to, such sum as the County Commissioners may deem right and
proper; and the County Commissioners shall levy upon the as-
sessable property of the county a sum sufficient to pay for keep-
ing the prisoners and for the necessary fuel aforesaid; but i t
shall not be hereafter lawful for the sheriff to make or collect
any charge for receiving in or releasing from the jail in said
county any prisoner.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1918.

Approved April 2nd, 1918.

CHAPTER 43.

AN ACT to amend Chapter 169 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland of 1904, entitled "An Act to repeal
and re-enact with amendments Chapter 25 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland of 1900, entitled 'Allegany
County, ' sub-title 'County Commissioners, ' and fixing the
salary of the Clerk to the County Commissioners, by adding
an additional section thereto authorizing the payment of an
additional salary or compensation to the Clerk to the Board