EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1437

Attorney of said county, shall knowingly demand or receive
for any service or duty a fee not allowed by law, or a greater
fee than is allowed by law, or shall demand or receive a fee for
services or duty before the same shall be actually performed,
such officer so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be fined a sum not lees
than fifty dollars and not more than one hundred dollars, to be
recovered, with costs, by indictment in the Circuit Court for
Harford County; and the office of such officer shall be declared
vacant, and the vacancy be filled according to the requirements
of law; and it shall be the duty of the judges of the Circuit
Court to give this section in charge to the grand jury at each
term of the court to which a grand jury is summoned.

208. The County Commissioners of Harford County be
and they are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to pay
to the Havre de Grace Hospital, of Harford County, Mary-
land, on or before the first day of September, in each year, the
sum of one thousand dollars ($1, 000. 00) or so much thereof
as in the discretion of said County Commissioners they may in
their judgment desire to pay to said hospital, and the said
County Commissioners may, in their discretion, provide for
and levy in 1912 and annually thereafter, on the assessable
property in said county, the amount of money necessary to
pay said appropriation or appropriations.

COURT HOUSE.

209. George L. VanBibber, A. Henry Strasbaugh, Stev-
enson A. Williams, Hugh A. Jones, and William S. Forwood,
Jr., 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 building of an
addition to the Court House in Bel Air sufficiently large to
accommodate with offices all the public offices of Harford
County and the furnishing said Court House and offices when
so constructed with necessary and proper cases for the recep-
tion and preservation of the public records and with all the
necessary furniture and such other things as the public con-
venience may require at a total cost not to exceed the sum of
twenty-five thousand dollars.

210. The Board of Commissioners named in the preceding
section or a majority of them are hereby authorized and re-
quired to borrow, from time to time and upon such terms as
they may deem proper at a rate of interest not exceeding 6 per