196                               Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 203

relating to the salaries and expenses of the Sheriff of Wicomico
County and to the salary of the Deputy Sheriff of the County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 37 (v) of Article 87 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Sheriff" "SHERIFFS", sub-title "Compen-
sation and Duties", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments to read as follows:

37 (v).

The Sheriff of Wicomico County shall receive an annual salary of
[forty-five hundred dollars ($4,500.00)] Fifty-five hundred dollars
($5,500.00) to be paid to him in equal monthly installments. He
shall appoint a chief deputy who shall receive an annual salary of
not more than [thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500.00)] four thou-
sand dollars ($4,000.00), payable in equal monthly installments. He
shall serve during the tenure of office of the Sheriff subject to re-
moval by the Sheriff. The Sheriff may appoint such additional depu-
ties as he and the County Commissioners of Wicomico County shall
deem necessary, which additional deputies shall receive such com-
pensation as he and said County Commissioners of Wicomico County
shall determine. In addition thereto the Sheriff of Wicomico County
shall be allowed such additional sums as may be necessary to defray
all expenses of his office, including necessary automobile mileage
allowance at the rate of not less than six cents (6¢) per mile for
automobiles used by him and his deputies in the discharge of their
official duties, except such mileage shall not be allowed in the event
automobiles are furnished to the Sheriff by the County Commission-
ers of Wicomico County, actual carfare or other transportation ex-
pense necessary in the discharge of said duties, necessary telephone
and telegraph expense, necessary expense for clerical assistants when
the engaging of such assistants or hiring of such assistants is done
with the approval 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 ex-
penses, fees and costs now or heretofore allowed the Sheriff of Wi-
comico 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 Com-
missioners shall not pay said Sheriff for any service he may render
in the discharge of his official duties, any other further compensa-
tion and shall not be liable in any way for any other fee or compen-
sation 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 empowered to make provision by appropriation in their annual