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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 170

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:

Article — Courts and Judicial Proceedings

2-30 9.

(g) The Sheriff of Caroline County shall receive a
salary of [$12,000] $17,500 and an allowance for mileage in
connection with his official duties and for boarding and
keeping prisoners at the county jail. Be shall appoint a
deputy, at a salary of at least $2,800, and a matron-cook
for the county jail, at a salary of at least $2,500. He may
appoint additional deputies with the approval of the County
Commissioners as to number and compensation; the County
Commissioners of Caroline County may increase the salary of
the Sheriff, his deputies, and other employees in accordance
with Article III, § 35 of the Constitution.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
may not be construed to extend or apply to the salary of the
Sheriff of Caroline County in office on the effective date
of this Act, but the provisions of this Act concerning the
salary of the Sheriff of Caroline County shall take effect
at the beginning of the next following term of office.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved April 11, 1978.

CHAPTER 171

(House Bill 1872)

AN ACT concerning

Caroline County - Court Criers

FOR the purpose of altering the compensation received by the
Caroline County Circuit Court Crier; and clarifying and
correcting certain language.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article — Courts and Judicial Proceedings

Section 2-506 (b)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1974 Volume and 1977 Supplement)