PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 399

"Sheriff," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments, said amended Section to read as follows:

SEC. 250. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Sheriff shall not be entitled to receive more
than fifty cents per day for keeping and boarding each pris-
oner confined in the County Jail; and the County Commis-
sioners shall make quarterly settlements with him upon the
presentation of his account for the same with proper vouchers.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 2nd, 1914.

CHAPTER. 269.

AN ACT to authorize and provide for the furnishing of the office
of the Register of Wills of Harford County with steel files,
book cases and other equipment and to provide for the proper
classification and filing of papers therein, and for the record-
ing and indexing of all papers involving or concerning title
to real estate.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That John Archer, Alfred H. Wilson and Henry A. Whit-
aker be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, and they
or a majority of them are authorized and empowered by virtue
of this Act to contract for and superintend the furnishing of
the office of the Register of Wills of Harford County with steel
furnishings, including files, book cases and other necessary
equipment, of an approved system and make now in use, of
which system and make said Commissioners shall determine.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said Commissioners
shall inquire into and put into operation and effect a proper
system of filing and classifying all papers in said office and shall
set apart such unrecorded papers now in said office, which in-
volve or concern real estate, real estate holdings or the titles
thereto, and have them properly recorded and indexed by the
Register of Wills of Harford County at the usual rate charged
for such work in said office; not including, however, papers filed
in proceedings, now and hereafter, depending in said Court, the
recording and indexing of which shall be paid by the parties to
the proceedings as now required by law.