PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 647

stallments of seven hundred and fifty dollars each on the first
day of July and the first day of January; and said salary shall
include the compensation of said State's Attorney for services
rendered before the Justices of the Peace in said County in all
criminal cases when in the public interest he attends any hear-
ings or trials before said Justices; and shall include all advice
regarding criminal matters which he shall give any of said
Justices, but his actual expenses incurred in following and try-
ing criminal cases removed from said County shall be paid in
addition to this salary.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts
of Acts inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby re-
pealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the Sheriff to promptly collect and forthwith pay over to
the County Treasurer all appearance or other fees taxed as part
of the costs of any criminal case, after this Act takes effect; and
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Worcester County after this
Act becomes effective in taxing costs in criminal cases to be paid
by the prisoner or traverser shall include the usual appearance
fee, which shall be payable to the Sheriff as aforesaid for the
use of the County.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect and the salary run from the first day of January, 1914.

Approved April 10th, 1914.

CHAPTER 404.

AN ACT to appropriate $5,000.00 to the State-wide Vice Com-
mission of Maryland.

WHEREAS, The Governor has heretofore created and appointed
The State-Wide Vice Commission of Maryland to serve without
pay, to examine into the conditions of vice in this State, and its
relation and effect on the community at large, and make a full
report thereof; and,

WHEREAS, The members of the Commission have entered upon
their duties and are making an investigation of conditions in the
City of Baltimore, and a careful study of the handling of the
vice problem by other States and foreign countries, and have
paid the expenses of the Commission out of private subscrip-
tions; and,