Marvin Mandel, Governor                            839

37.

(g) Cecil County—Commencing with the beginning of the next
term of office, the Sheriff of Cecil County shall receive an annual
salary of $10,500 [$6,500] in addition to lodging furnished him and
his family or $1,500 per year for lodging outside the jail and no
other allowance for expenses except as hereinafter provided. The
Sheriff shall appoint nine [eight] full-time deputy sheriffs, one of
whom he shall name as chief deputy and one he shall name as an
investigator. The salary of the chief deputy and investigator shall
be $6,500 [$5,900] annually with annual increments, subject to
approval of the Sheriff of [$200.00] $400.00, subject to a maximum
annual salary of $8,500.00 [$6,900.00]. The remaining [seven] eight
deputies shall receive annual salaries of $6,200.00 [$5,600.00] each
with annual increments, subject to the approval of the Sheriff of
[$200.00] $400.00, subject to a maximum annual salary of $8,000.00
[$6,600.00]. The Sheriff may hire five clerks or jailers who shall each
receive $5,500.00 annually, subject to annual increments of $400.00,
with the approval of the Sheriff, and subject to a maximum annual
salary of $7,500.00. The Sheriff's office shall be furnished by the
County Commissioners with four automobiles, two of them to be
furnished by July 1, 1968, and two more by July 1, 1969. The County
Commissioners shall pay all necessary operating expenses including
but not limited to, gasoline, oil, insurance and repairs, and shall
replace these automobiles with new ones at least once every two
years. The deputy sheriffs shall perform all the duties heretofore
performed by, the constables to the trial magistrates' courts of Cecil
County. From and after the appointment of one or more of such
deputy sheriffs, any references to constables, as applied to Cecil
County, in any law shall be construed to apply to deputy sheriffs.
The Sheriff and deputy sheriffs shall be entitled to an expense allow-
ance for travel at the rate of ten cents (10˘) per mile actually
traveled, to be paid monthly upon vouchers submitted by the Sheriff
to the County Commissioners of Cecil County, in such form as they
may specify, provided that he shall also submit with such vouchers
an affidavit sworn to by him upon personal knowledge showing for
each day of the month just passed the number of miles each vehicle
used by him and his deputies has been driven in the performance of
the duties of his or their office, as determined by him from a daily
check of the speedometer readings of the respective vehicles, except
such mileage allowance shall not be allowed in the event automobiles
are furnished to the Sheriff and deputies by the County Commission-
ers. The Sheriff's office shall also receive an appropriation of $1,500,
to be used for special investigations and employees, subject
to the approval of the County Commissioners. The Sheriff may also
appoint temporarily such additional deputy sheriffs as he may deem
necessary for the public safety but only after he has secured the
approval of the County Commissioners, and the Administrative Judge
of the Circuit Court of Cecil County, and the County Commissioners
shall allow reasonable compensation for same, but these temporary
deputies shall not serve longer than the case actually warrants.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
January 1, 1975 1971.

Approved May 6, 1971.