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place in said County, any service incident to the office of
deputy sheriff, which they may be by the Sheriff ordered to
do and perform, and the deputies of the Sheriff of Cecil
County shall not be entitled to demand or be paid any fur-
ther or other compensation for the rendition of any service
incident to their office than that such as is provided by this
Act.

449. It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners to
pay for all supplies and provisions necessary, in their judg-
ment, for the support and maintenance of all persons com-
mitted to the jail, said supplies and provisions to be pur-
chased by the Sheriff and placed at said jail and the bills for
the same shall be presented by the Sheriff to said County Com-
missioners for approval and payment, provided, however, that
the said County Commissioners are hereby directed and pro-
hibited from approving or allowing the payment to the Sheriff
of any claim for food and provisions furnished for the keep and
board of prisoners where the amount claimed is in excess of
fifty cents per day for each prisoner actually committed to
the jail of said County, and the County Commissioners shall
furnish all fuel and light needed for said jail; and the Sheriff
shall have the authority and power to appoint such assistants,
with the approval of the County Commissioners, as may be
necessary in any emergency, said assistants to be paid such
salary as the County Commissioners may direct. The cook
at the County Jail shall be paid fifty dollars (f50. 00) per
month and two hundred dollars ($200. 00) shall be paid to
the attorney to the Sheriff, the payments to the attorney to
the Sheriff to be made semi-annually. The County Commis-
sioners shall include in the tax levy each year a sufficient
amount to pay for the cost of food and the compensation to
the cook and attorney.

SEC. 2, And be it further enacted^ That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1943.

Approved May 6, 1943.

CHAPTER 592.
(House Bill 627)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 41 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Governor—Execu-
tive and Administrative Departments", sub-title "The De-
partment of State Employment and Registration", said new
section to be known as Section 168A, and to follow imme-