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

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 136.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with Amendments, Sections
214 A and 214 Aa, Article 2 of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title "Anne Arundel County, " sub-title "Sheriff, "
as the same was repealed and re-enacted by Chapter 162,
Acts of 1916, of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 214 A and 214 Aa of Article 2 of the Code
of Public Local Laws, title "Anne Arundel County" sub-title
''Sheriff" be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with Amendments so as to read as follows:

SEC. 214 A. The Sheriff of Anne Arundel County shall col-
lect all fees and charges in civil and criminal cases to which
his office may be entitled by law, and shall exercise all powers
conferred upon him by law to enforce the collection of the
same, and shall keep a systematic and complete record of all
such cases and collections from the same; and shall at the first
meeting of the County Commissioners held in each month make
a full and detailed report of all fees charged for, and also
all fees received, by him for the preceding month in all crim-
inal cases; the said statements and reports to be under oath
of the sheriff, and the said statements and reports to be accom-
panied by the sheriff's check for all of such fees in criminal
cases, collected by him during the preceding month. That the
said Sheriff may retain all civil fees collected by him. The
amounts so charged for expenses of deputies shall be reason-
able and shall not exceed a maximum schedule to be prescribed
by the County Commissioners and filed with the sheriff. And
whenever any sheriff shall retire from office, leaving uncollected
any costs, fees or charges in civil and criminal cases lawfully
payable to him or his office, it shall be the duty of his successor
to collect and pay over the same in the manner above prescribed;
and it shall be the duty of the sheriff to keep in his office, in
proper books for the purpose, an official record of the fees and
charges to be collected by him and those which have been so
collected, which books shall remain in his office after the ex-
piration of his term for the use of his successor.