Marvin Mandel, Governor                           21

County (1957 Edition, being Article 22 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland), title "Washington County," subtitle "Sheriff,"
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

581.

The sheriff of Washington County shall, within ninety days from
the conviction and sentence of any and all prisoners by the Circuit
Court for Washington County, when the penalty is a fine and costs
imposed by the court, or the prisoners committed into the hands
of the sheriff until fine and costs are paid, make a return to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Washington County in each case,
on the criminal docket of said court as follows: When the fine and
cost imposed shall be collected by the said sheriff, viz.: "Fine and
costs paid and prisoner discharged," or in case the said prisoner
so committed into the hands of the said sheriff shall be insolvent
and serves the time regulated by existing law, in the jail of said
county, in payment of said fine and costs, then and in that event the
said sheriff shall make a return to the Clerk of said Court as follows,
viz.: "Prisoner served his time in jail and discharged," and the said
sheriff shall also make returns within the same time to the said Clerk
of said court from the date of their forfeiture in all recognizance at
any and all times of said court in each particular case as follows:
"Amount of bond collected," or what [deposition] disposition he has
made of said forfeited recognizance, and each of said returns shall be
signed by the sheriff of said county, and the Clerk of the said court
shall note upon the criminal docket in each particular case thereon
the returns thus made to him by the said sheriff of said county, and
upon the failure of the sheriff to so make said returns as required
by this section, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine to the county for each such
offense not more than the sum of five hundred dollars, to be imposed
by the Circuit Court for Washington County and collected as other
fines are.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970.

Approved April 1, 1970

CHAPTER 20
(Senate Bill 339)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 719 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Washington County (1957 Edi-
tion, being Article 22 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land), title "Washington County," subtitle "Trespass," amending
the laws concerning certain unlawful trespass in Washington
County in order to remove an obsolete reference to the payment
of fines to informers.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 719 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Washington