J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                               479

title "Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact", sub-title "Staters
Attorney", amending the law concerning the accounts of State's
Attorneys against their respective Boards of County Commis-
sioners for certain services and expenses in order to provide that
the section shall not apply to Baltimore County* , WORCESTER
COUNTY, PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY AND CALVERT
COUNTY.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 39 of Article 10, Annotated Code of Maryland (1957
Edition), title "Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact", sub-title
"State's Attorney", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments to read as follows:

39. It shall be the duty of the respective State's attorneys of the
counties of this State, in making up their accounts against the board
of county commissioners of their respective counties, for all such
services and expenses as are properly chargeable against said board
of county commissioners, to state fully and particularly the services
rendered, and the time and place when and where said services were
rendered, and the items of expenses incurred in the proper discharge
of their duties, which account may include a reasonable trial fee for
each case actually tried, to be allowed in the discretion of the court,
as well as the appearance fee provided by law, and a reasonable
compensation for all other services performed by him; and which
accounts, together with the affidavit of said State's attorneys as to
the correctness thereof, and the fairness of the charges therein made,
shall be submitted by such State's attorneys to the judges of the
circuit courts for their respective counties; and it shall be the duty
of said judges to examine said accounts, and if the items thereof are
properly chargeable against said county commissioners, and the
charges are fair and reasonable, the said judges shall endorse on
said accounts their certificate to that effect; and upon the certificate
aforesaid of the said judges, or a majority of them, being endorsed
upon said accounts, the said accounts shall be filed with the clerk of
the board of county commissioners of the respective counties and it
shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the respective coun-
ties to pass said accounts as certified to them by said judges, or a
majority thereof; and it shall also be the duty of said county com-
missioners to levy and collect, for the use of the State's attorneys of
their respective counties, the amounts of money so as aforesaid cer-
tified by said judges, or a majority of them, to be properly chargeable
by said State's attorneys, at the same time and in the same manner
that other county taxes are levied and collected; provided, that this
section shall not prevent the commissioners of any county from al-
lowing, in their discretion, a larger sum to the State's attorney of
said county than the amount of the accounts so allowed and certified
by said court or judges. This section shall not apply to Garrett Coun-
ty, Allegany County, [and] Anne Arundel County, and Baltimore
County, , WORCESTER COUNTY, PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
AND CALVERT COUNTY.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1961.

Approved April 24, 1961.