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time of each monthly requisition, which sum or sums shall
be in lieu of all expenses, fees and costs now or heretofore
allowed the Sheriff of Wicomico County for expense in
carrying out the duties of his office, including all expenses
for transferring prisoners to and from penal institutions
and places of confinement in the State of Maryland under
sentence or order of any authorized authority, and said
County Commissioners shall not pay said Sheriff for any
service he may render in the discharge of his official
duties, any other or further compensation and shall not be
liable in any way for any other fee or compensation to said
Sheriff than as above provided, except for the board and
keeping of prisoners in the County Jail and the payment
to him for matron service in managing the domestic
economy of the jail and for a cook in said jail as now
provided by local law. The County Commissioners of
Wicomico County are hereby directed, authorized and em-
powered to make provision by appropriation in their an-
nual levy from year to year for sufficient funds to pay the
salaries and expenses hereinbefore provided for.

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 the members elected to each of the two
Houses of the General Assembly of Maryland, the same
shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 31, 1953.

CHAPTER 231
(House Bill 465)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-
section (b) of Section 6 of Article 52 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Justices of the
Peace", sub-title "Civil Jurisdiction", and to add a new
sub-section to said section, said new sub-section to be
known as Sub-section (g) and to follow immediately after

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[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.