162 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 166

after and the remaining one-fourth on or before the thirty-
first day of December next thereafter.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure 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 of 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 March 12, 1943.

CHAPTER 166.
(House Bill 191)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 753
of Article 22 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1930 Edition), title "Washington County77, sub-title "Sher-
iff", as said section was amended by Chapter 111 of the Acts
of 1933, increasing the allowance to the Sheriff for keeping
prisoners who may be confined in the County Jail of Wash-
ington County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 753 of Article 22 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Washington County",
sub-title "Sheriff", as said section was amended by Chapter 111
of the Acts of 1933, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

753. From the time this Act is passed, until 12. 00 P. M.,
May 31, 1945, the Sheriff of Washington County shall be en-
titled to sixty cents per day for keeping each prisoner that may
be confined in the jail of said county, and shall be allowed for
necessary fuel for the jail and house attached thereto, such sum
as the County Commissioners may deem right and proper; and
the County Commissioners shall levy upon the assessable prop-
erty of the county a sum sufficient to pay for keeping the pris-
oners and for the necessary fuel aforesaid; but it shall not be
hereafter lawful for the Sheriff to make or collect any charge
for receiving in or releasing from the jail in said county any
prisoner.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-