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expense, necessary expense for clerical assistants when the engaging
of such assistants or hiring of such assistants is done with the ap-
proval of the County Commissioners of Wicomico County. He
shall submit properly authenticated requisitions containing a full
and complete statement under oath setting forth all of the items
of said expense accounts for the month in question, including the
names of all deputies and assistants and the amounts allowed to each
and all other items of expense, which statement under oath is hereby
made the duty of the sheriff to make up and submit to the said County
Commissioners of Wicomico County at the 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 dis-
charge of his official duties, any other 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 keep-
ing 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 empowered
to make provision by appropriation in their annual levy from year
to year for sufficient funds to pay the salaries and expenses herein-
before provided for.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the increase in compensa-
tion herein provided for the Sheriff of Wicomico County shall not
affect the compensation of the incumbent in that office at the time
this Act is effective. Said increase shall take effect as of the be-
ginning of the term of the Sheriff of Wicomico County who is elected
to that office at the regular election in November, 1958.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved February 13, 1957.

CHAPTER 74
(House Bill 256)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 23 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Wicomico County,"
to be known as Section 170A, to follow immediately after Section
170 thereof and to be under the new sub-title "Plats," to provide
that lands dedicated to public use by subdivision plats recorded
among the Land Records of Wicomico County shall be forever

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

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