THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                     669

personnel to be appointed by the County Commissioners upon recom-
mendation by the Sheriff. The compensation of the warden and
such other personnel shall be set by the County Commissioners. The
Sheriff shall be allowed the sum of Twenty-five Dollars per month
for clerical work and record keeping at the jail, and he shall be
allowed for his actual expenditures for food, provisions and neces-
sary supplies furnished the prisoners confined in jail, provided
the total cost of the food so furnished shall not exceed the sum
of Seventy-five Cents per day for each prisoner so confined and
for the warden, the night guard and the cook. The Sheriff shall
keep an itemized account of all such expenditures and in the form
and system prescribed by the County Commissioners, and shall make
a report of such expenditures according to such form and system
to the County Commissioners at their first meeting in every month,
accompanied by a statement showing the actual number of prisoners
and attendants daily supplied during such period; and the County
Commissioners upon examination of said account and finding the
same to be correct and within the limits herein provided, shall pay
the same to the Sheriff. The Sheriff shall be responsible for the
conduct in office of [his appointees and shall have power to cancel]
the persons so appointed and shall recommend to the County Com-
missioners the cancellation of such appointments at any time [if]
he deems such action necessary.

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 Mary-
land, the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1955.

CHAPTER 400
(House Bill 689)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sub-section (u)
of Section 38 of Article 87 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), title "Sheriffs," sub-title "Compensation and
Duties," enabling the County Commissioners of Washington County
to increase the amount allowed the Sheriff for expenses.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sub-section (u) of Section 38 of Article 87 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Sheriffs," sub-title "Com-
pensation and Duties," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.