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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

licemen, which they may do to the number of
five, the detectives shall receive the sum of fifteen
dollars a week, payable semi-monthly.

Code amended.

Sec. 2 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section eight hundred and twelve,
of Article fourth of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland, be amended and re-enacted, so as to
read as follows:

Fay of officers.

812. The officers of Police shall be paid semi-
monthly, and their pay shall be as follows: The
Marshal shall receive seventeen hundred dollars a
year, the Deputy Marshal shall receive twelve
hundred dollars a year; each Captain twenty dol-
lars a week: each Lieutenant sixteen dollars and
fifty cents a week; each Sergeant fifteen dollars a
week; and each Turnkey twelve dollars a week.

In force.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 94.

Paased Feb.
11,1864.

AN ACT to regulate the compensation of the
State's Attorney of Worcester county.

State's At-
torney — Fees
of.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the County Commissioners of
Worcester county be and they are hereby required
to allow to, and levy for the use of, the State's At-
torney for Worcester county, in all cases which
may hereafter be tried in said county, the fees fol-
lowing, to wit: in every case of murder, arson or
rape, twenty-five dollars; in every case of felony,
other than murder, arson or rape, twenty dollars;
in every case of misdemeanor punishable, if the
party charged be a white man, by confinement in
the penitentiary, or if a negro, by sale, ten dol-
lars; and in all other misdemeanors, five dollars;
said fees to be in addition to the regular appear-
ance fees now allowed by law.