58                                Laws of Maryland                         Ch. 54

sand two hundred dollars ($1,200)] two thousand five hundred dol-
lars ($2,500) 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 this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1970.

Approved April 1, 1970

CHAPTER 54
(House Bill 440)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 2-6A of
Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1967 Replacement
Volume and 1969 Supplement), title "Election Code," subtitle
"Election Boards and Employees," and to add a new Section 35(g)
to the Code of Public Local Laws of Allegany County (1963 Edi-
tion and 1967 Supplement, being Article 1 of the Code of Public
Laws of Maryland), title "Allegany County," subtitle "Classified
Service," to follow immediately after Section 35(f), to provide
that clerk-stenographers appointed by the board of election super-
visors of Allegany County be included in the classified service with
a Title 2 classification, or, if the classified service system is
changed, to provide that they receive compensation equal to that
of their peers.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 2-6A of Article 33 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1967 Replacement Volume and 1969 Supplement), title "Election
Code," subtitle "Election Boards and Employees," be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows: