HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1433

labor, responsibility and expense of said Sheriff in the dis-
charge of the duties of his said office, including the safe-
keeping in jail of the prisoners committed to his custody,
the cooking and serving of meals to said prisoners, the nec-
essary laundry for said prisoners and the maintenance of
the jail in a cleanly condition; and said County Commis-
sioners shall not pay said Sheriff any further sum for the
discharge of his official duties, except as follows: for every
execution of the sentence of death by said Sheriff upon
any person convicted of a capital offense, he shall be paid
the sum of Three hundred dollars; for the conveyance of
any person or persons under sentence to any State institu-
tion or to or from any jail or station house of any other
County, or the City of Baltimore, or any other place of con-
finement beyond the limits of Harford County, he shall be
paid his actual costs of transportation, together with the
actual costs of transportation of such person or persons;
for all fuel and lighting needed for the comfort of said
prisoners; and for the allowance for the meals for said
prisoners as provided in Section 455.

455. The Sheriff shall furnish such food supplies in his
judgment necessary and proper for the support and main-
tenance of all persons committed to the jail of said County,
and the County Commissioners of Harford County shall
levy and pay to the said Sheriff such sum from time to time
as they may deem necessary, which shall not exceed seven-
ty-five cents per day for each prisoner confined in said jail,
to be paid to said Sheriff monthly.

All surplus funds remaining in the Sheriff's hands at the
end of each year over and above his salary of Three thou-
sand dollars per year, and salaries of deputies and other
expenses of his office as may be approved by the said Com-
missioners, and for the feeding and care of prisoners, shall
be paid over by the said Sheriff to the said County Com-
missioners, to be used for County purposes; and the said
County Commissioners shall have the right at any time to
examine and audit the books and accounts of the said
Sheriff.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted) That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and having been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported
by three-fifths of all the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved May 6? 1943.