132                              LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 118

office, including all expenses for transferring prisoners to and from
penal institutions and places of confinement in the State of Maryland
under the sentence or order of any authorized authority, and said
County Council shall not pay said Sheriff for any service he may
render in the discharge of his official duties, and other further com-
pensation 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 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
Council of Wicomico County [are] is hereby directed, authorized
and empowered to make provisions by appropriation in [their] its
annual levy from year to year for sufficient funds to pay the salaries
and expenses hereinbefore provided for. All deputies, except the
Chief Deputy; clerical assistants; matrons; cooks and other em-
ployees employed hereunder shall be under and subject to the provi-
sions of Article VI, title "Personnel Provisions" of the Charter of
Wicomico County and the rules and regulations passed by the County
Council pursuant thereto. If a deputy subject to the provisions of
Article VI is promoted to Chief Deputy, then upon his removal from
the office of Chief Deputy for other than cause, he shall revert to a
deputy with the same status under the provisions of Article VI which
he had prior to his appointment as Chief Deputy. If a Chief Deputy
was not a deputy subject to the provisions of Article VI prior to his
appointment as Chief Deputy in the event of his removal from office
for any reason he shall not automatically revert to a deputy.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1967.

Approved March 24, 1967.

CHAPTER 118
(House Bill 43)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 11 (c)
of Article 36 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1966 Supple-
ment and 1965 Replacement Volume), title "Fees of Officers," sub-
title "Bailiffs and Criers," correcting an error in the law empower-
ing the Circuit Judge residing in Charles County to appoint court
deputies and providing the duties and salary for same.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 11 (c) of Article 36 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1966 Supplement and 1965 Replacement Volume), title "Fees of
Officers," subtitle "Bailiffs and Criers," be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

11.

(c) In Charles County, in addition to the bailiffs and criers as
provided in [section] subsection (a) above, the judge of the 7th
Judicial Circuit Court residing in Charles County may appoint not
more than two court deputies to perform such duties and receive such
salary as the court may direct, not to exceed two hundred dollars