WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1839.

which Cecil county may incur in paying jurymen, bailiffs,
criers, or otherwise, by reason of such removal; and the
commissioners of Cecil county are authorised to collect
such expenses from the county from which the removal is
made; and an account of the expenses, with the certificate
of the clerk of Cecil court, shall be prima facie evidence
of the demand.

CHAPTER 70.

Authority to

collect.

An act to provide for the payment of State Witnesses in Bal-
timore County.

Passed Feb. 27,
1840.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the commissioners of the tax of Balti-
more county, be and they are hereby authorised and re-
quired to levy on the assessable property of said county,
at the usual time of making the county levy, annually,
such sum of money as may appear, from the certificates of
the clerk of Baltimore county court, to be due to persons
for their attendance as State witnesses at said court; which
said sums of money shall be paid over to the persons en-
titled thereto, by the treasurer of said county, in the same
manner as other county charges.

Levy to be made
for payment of

State witnesses.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, " That it shall be the duty of
the clerk of Baltimore county court to make out annually,
before the time of making the county levy, a list of the
State witnesses who have attended at said court, with
the number of days they have attended thereon, and to lay
said list before the said commissioners of tax.

List of witness-
es to be made

out.

SEC. 3.. /3nd be it enacted, That the sum or sums of
money directed to be levied by virtue of this act, shall be
collected by the collectors of Baltimore county, as other
county charges are now collected, and it shall be the duty
of the said collectors of said county, to pay the same over
to the treasurer of said county.

Collection.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the per diem of
each witness shall be one dollar for each day they shall be
in attendance at said court, and a certificate signed by the
clerk of the county court, shewing the number of days
which any witness may have attended said court, shall be
sufficient authority to the treasurer of said county, to pay
the amount so specified in the said certificate.

Witnesses' per

diem.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That nothing in this act

To be construed