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802 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 620
Third—The actual railroad charges of the Sheriff and the
several Deputies Sheriff and the actual cost of railroad tickets
of the prisoners necessary for the conveyance of said prisoners.
Fourth—A reasonable sum not exceeding twenty cents per
person summoned by the Circuit Court for Allegany County
to testify in criminal cases in said Court during the trial of
such cases in the term for which they are summoned, and when
the Sheriff or his deputies cannot summon said witnesses for
want of time or when they reside and are five miles from the
City of Cumberland, Md., when the Sheriff shall show that he
actually paid such amounts to his deputies or Constables.
Fifth—The actual sum of money expended by the Sheriff
in purchasing food, necessary clothing for the prisoners at the
jail, and coal, gas, telephone, and said County Commissioners
shall allow said Sheriff no other expenses whatsoever, upon
any pretext unless allowed, directed and ordered by the Board
in regular session; provided, that no allowance for expenses
shall be paid or credited to the said Sheriff or for his account
unless the same shall be reported under oath to the County
Commissioners at each month in writing, which oath shall
show all the expenditures and that they are correct and have
been honestly and lawfully incurred and that the Sheriff him-
self has not derived any profit from the purchase thereof, nor
has consumed, or appropriated to himself or has permitted his
deputies to so appropriate to themselves any part of said pur-
chases; that each expenditure and purchase was reasonable
and necessary and the price thereof was not in excess of the
market price, which said report and affidavit shall be accom-
panied by properly itemized vouchers or certificates showing
to whom and for what purpose the same were made; and said
Sheriff shall not be entitled to any compensation for the re-
moval of prisoners from the jail to any other place, except
when the same was done upon the order of Circuit Court for
Allegany County, and he shall not allow the removal of any
prisoners from the jail for Allegany County unless upon the
order of the Circuit Court, or upon the expiration of a
prisoner's term, or his release in full for a hearing either by
the Circuit Court for Allegany County or a Justice of the
Peace. Said Sheriff shall at the end of each month make a
list of the prisoners in his custody and the reasons for their
commitment, and post the same in the office of the county jail
so that it may be read by those who desire to do so. Any
false swearing in the report of the Sheriff or affidavit thereof
to the Board of County Commissioners shall be deemed perjury
and be punished as such. The said Sheriff shall also include
in his monthly report a full statement of all fines and costs by
him collected, and shall pay the same over to the County
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