J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                        463

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 548 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Allegany
County (1955 Edition), being Article 1 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland, title "Allegany County", sub-title "Sheriff" be
and it is hereby repealed; and that Section 547 of said Article and
sub-title be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments to read as follows:

547. County Commissioners for Allegany County shall allow the
Sheriff of Allegany County each year:

[Second—A sum to be set by said County Commissioners for a
cook to the jail.] (1) A sum necessary to provide compensation for
the cooks in the jail, the employment of whom is subject to the pro-
visions of the Classified Service.

[Third—The actual railroad charges of the Sheriff and the several
Deputies Sheriff and the actual cost of railroad tickets of the
prisoners necessary for the conveyance of said prisoners.]

(2) The necessary costs of transporting prisoners sentenced by the
courts and trial magistrates of Allegany County, including the cost
of additional personnel as required for this purpose.

[Fourth—A reasonable sum not exceeding twenty cents per person
summoned by the Circuit Court for Allegany County to testify in
criminal cases in said Court during the trial of such cases in the
term for which they are summoned, and when the Sheriff or his
deputies cannot summon said witnesses for want of time or when
they reside and are five miles from the City of Cumberland, Md.,
when the Sheriff shall show that he actually paid such amounts to
his deputies or Constables.]

[Fifth] (8) The actual sum of money expended by the Sheriff in
purchasing food, necessary clothing for the prisoners at the jail,
and coal, gas, telephone, and said County Commissioners shall allow
said Sheriff no other expenses whatsoever, upon any pretext unless
allowed, directed and ordered by the Board in regular session;
provided, that no allowance for expenses shall be paid or credited
to the said Sheriff or for his account unless the same shall be reported
under oath to the County Commissioners at each month in writing,
which oath shall show all the expenditures and that they are correct
and have been honestly and lawfully incurred that the Sheriff himself
has not derived any profit from the purchase thereof, nor has
consumed, or appropriated to himself or has permitted his deputies
to so appropriate to themselves any part of said purchases; that
each expenditure and purchase was reasonable and necessary and
the price thereof was not in excess of the market price, which said
report and affidavit shall be accompanied by properly itemized
vouchers or certificates showing to whom and for what purpose the
same were made; and said Sheriff shall not be entitled to any com-
pensation for the removal of prisoners from the jail to any other
place, except when the same was done upon the order of Circuit
Court for Allegany County, and he shall not allow the removal of
any prisoners from the jail for Allegany County unless upon the
order of the Circuit Court, or upon the expiration of a prisoner's
term, or his release in full for a hearing either by the Circuit Court
for Allegany County or a Justice of the Peace. Said Sheriff shall at
the end of each month make a list of the prisoners in his custody and