J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                          61

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(q) The Sheriff of Queen Anne's County shall receive an annual
salary of [three thousand dollars ($3,000)] six thousand five hundred
dollars ($6,500). He shall appoint a chief deputy, who shall receive
an annual salary of [twenty-seven hundred dollars ($2,700)] four
thousand five hundred dollars ($4,500). The Sheriff may appoint
such assistant deputy sheriffs as the County Commissioners of said
county may approve, who shall each be paid [such compensation
as the said Commissioners shall prescribe] an annual salary of not
less than four thousand two hundred dollars ($4,200). The said
Commissioners may appoint an assistant deputy sheriff, who shall
receive [such compensation as the said Commissioners shall pre-
scribe] an annual salary of not less than four thousand two hundred
dollars ($4,200), and be designated and assigned to serve the trial
magistrates in and for Queen Anne's County, in lieu of a constable
at large, and to execute his process, orders and directions, and when
not so engaged, to perform such other duties as the Sheriff or the
chief deputy may require. [The Sheriff and deputy sheriffs shall
receive such sums as the County Commissioners may prescribe and
allow for the use of their respective automobiles and for traveling
expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.] The Sheriff
shall receive as of July 1, 1966, and each year thereafter an annual
allowance of one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200) for the
services of a cook for the county jail. The salaries and expenses
herein prescribed and allowed shall be in lieu of all expenses, fees,
costs and charges, except for the board and keeping of prisoners in
the county jail and other necessary operating expenses of said jail,
now or heretofore allowed by law or practice, including all expenses
for transferring persons to and from penal institutions, places of
confinement and State institutions in the State of Maryland under
sentence or order of any authorized authority.

The Sheriff and deputy sheriffs of said county are authorized,
directed and required to serve civil and criminal process issued by
the justices of the peace and trial magistrates in and for Queen
Anne's County and directed to the Sheriff of said county or any
deputies.

Before entering upon the duties of the office, each deputy sheriff
appointed under the authority of this subsection shall give bond to
the Sheriff of said county, in the penalty of five thousand dollars
($5,000) with security, to be approved by a judge of the Circuit
Court for said county, conditioned that he shall faithfully perform
his duties and account properly for all monies and property received
by virtue of his position; the premiums of which shall be borne by
the said county, and to be filed and recorded in the office of the
clerk of the Circuit Court of said county.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this
Act shall not be construed to extend or apply to the Sheriff in office
on the effective date of this Act, but the provisions of this Act shall
take effect with the next term of office.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1966.

Approved March 23, 1966.