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Home, '' then this Act shall be null and void and said County
Farm shall not be bought, nor shall the said County Home be
established.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1924.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 54.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 215A
of Article 12 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
title "Garrett County", sub-title "Sheriff", as said section
was enacted by Chapter 2 of the Acts of 1906, fixing the pay
for prisoners in the county jail.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 215A of Article 12 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "Garrett County", sub-title
"Sheriff", as said section was enacted by Chapter 2 of the Acts
of 1906, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments to read as follows:

215A. The County Commissioners of Garrett County shall
allow said Sheriff each year, first, the actual railway transpor-
tation charges of the Sheriff, his deputies, and the actual cost
of railway tickets of the prisoners, necessary in the conveyance
of said prisoners to the institution to which they are committed;
second, the sum of sixty cents per day for keeping and
boarding each prisoner committed to the county jail; third, the
actual sum expended by him for coal and other necessaries of
said jail, including a telephone, and said County Commissioners
shall allow or pay the Sheriff for no other or further expenses
of the Sheriff or any of his deputies upon any pretext, unless
said unenumerated expenditures shall have been previously and
specifically ordered by the board in session; provided, no allow-
ance for expenditures shall be paid or credited to said Sheriff:
the same shall be reported under oath by said Sheriff to the
said Board of Commissioners once in each month in writing,
which oath shall show that the expenditures above enumerated
when made are correct and have been honestly and lawfully in-
curred, and that the Sheriff himself has not derived profit from
the purchase thereof, or consumed or appropriated to himself
any part of such purchase; that each expenditure or purchase
was reasonable and necessary, and the price thereof was not
in excess of the market price therefor: which report and affi-