1442                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 624

Section 73-8 thereof, to prohibit certain conduct and to provide
penalties for the violation thereof.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That new Sections 73-9 and 73-10 be and they are hereby added to
the Code of Public Local Laws of Prince George's County (1963
Edition, being Article 17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land), title "Prince George's County," subtitle "Sureties," to follow
immediately after Section 73-8 thereof, and to read as follows:

73-9.

(a)  It shall be unlawful for any person engaged in the business or
activity of becoming surety for compensation on bonds in criminal
cases, or for any agent, employee or representative of such person
(hereinafter called "bondsman"), either directly or indirectly, to give,
donate, lend, contribute, or to promise to give, donate, loan or con-
tribute any money, property, entertainment, or other thing of value
whatsoever to any attorney-at-law, police officer, sheriff, jailer, pro-
bation officer, clerk or other attache of any court having criminal
jurisdiction in the county, or public official, or employee, of any
character, for procuring or assisting in procuring any person to em-
ploy such bondsman to execute as surety any bond for compensation
in any criminal case.

(b)  It shall be unlawful for any attorney-at-law, police officer,
sheriff, jailer, probation officer, clerk, bailiff, or other attache of any
court having criminal jurisdiction in the county or public official
or employee of any character, to accept or receive from any such
bondsman any money, property, entertainment, or other thing of
value whatsoever for procuring or assisting in procuring any person
to employ any bondsman to execute as surety any bond for compensa-
tion in any criminal court.

(c)  It shall be unlawful for any bondsman, either directly or in-
directly, to procure, suggest, aid in the procurement of or to cause
in any way whatsoever the obtaining or employment of any attorney-
at-law for any person in a criminal case.

(d)  It shall be lawful to charge for executing any bond in a crim-
inal case, but it shall be unlawful for any bondsman, either directly
or indirectly, to charge, accept, or receive any sum of money, or other
thing of value, other than the regular fee for bonding, from any
person for whom he has executed bond for any other service whatever
performed in connection with any indictment, information, or charge
upon which such person is bailed or held.

(e)  It also shall be unlawful for any bondsman to settle, or attempt
to settle, or to procure or attempt to procure, the dismissal of any
warrant, indictment, information, or charge against any person in
custody or held upon bond, with any court, or judge, magistrate, or
justice of any court, or with the prosecuting attorney