Marvin Mandel, Governor                         687

iffs," subtitles "Service of Process, Civil and Criminal, and Proceed-
ings in Cases of Failure to Make Due Return," "Collection of Officers'
Fees," and "Compensation and Duties," respectively, be and they are
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

§ 6. Bail bond or cash in lieu thereof—When taken.

He or his deputy, when he arrests a person on a writ for any crimi-
nal offense not punishable by confinement in the penitentiary, may
take a bail bond from the person so arrested with security to be by
him approved and in a penalty not exceeding three hundred dollars,
except in those cases where a specific fine or penalty is prescribed for
the commission of the offense, in which cases the penalty of the bond
shall be the highest penalty or fine fixed by law, with condition that
the person so arrested shall appear in court on the day the said writ
is returnable and attend the court from day to day and not depart
therefrom without the leave of said court; and if the person so ar-
rested cannot give bail bond, he shall be taken before a [justice of
the peace] District Court commissioner to be dealt with according
to law. The sheriff or his deputy shall be permitted to accept cash
money in place of a bail bond for the same amount as that required
by the aforesaid bail bond, upon delivery to the person so arrested,
or paying such money, of a receipt for such cash amount received.

§ 29. Procedure when debtor absconds with fees.

If he shall be informed by the affidavit of anyone taken before a
[justice of the peace] notary public that a person against whom he
has fees to collect has absconded or is about to do so, the sheriff may
distrain or execute immediately, without having previously delivered
an account of fees; provided that if any such absconding debtor shall
give the sheriff good and sufficient security for the payment of such
officers' fees within sixty days, the sheriff shall not sell his goods or
chattels.

§ 37. Salaries and expenses; deputies; employees; equipment.

(a) Allegany County.—Until the beginning of the term of the
Sheriff of Allegany County elected to that position in the month of
November, 1970, he shall receive an annual salary of not less than
$5,400, as fixed by the County Commissioners from time to time, and
an annual allowance of $2,400 for expenses. From and after the be-
ginning of the term of the Sheriff elected in the month of November,
1970, he shall receive an annual salary of not less than $7,800, as fixed
by the County Commissioners from time to time, and an expense
allowance of $1,200 annually, the disbursement of which shall be
accounted for to the County Commissioners.

The Sheriff shall appoint, subject to the provisions of § 63A to
63-I of the Allegany County Code (1955 Edition), subtitle "Classi-
fied Service," five (5) or more deputies at an annual salary of not less
than $3,300 each; one of said deputies shall be assigned to the Sheriff
to attend the [magistrate for juvenile causes] Circuit Court for
Allegany County sitting as a Juvenile Court to execute his process,
orders and directions, and when not so engaged, to perform such other
duties as the Sheriff may require.

Deputy sheriffs are entitled to free meals while on duty, in addition
to the salaries provided for in this subsection.