836
LAWS OF MARYLAND
Ch. 48
(House Bill 781)
AN ACT concerning
Washington County - State's Attorneys -
Expenses
FOR the purpose of providing that Washington County is
exempted from requirements that the circuit court
certify for payment certain expenses of the State's
Attorney in Washington County.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 10 - Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact
Section 39
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1976 Replacement Volume and 1980 Supplement)
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be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows: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 10 - Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact
39.
It shall be the duty of the respective States attorneys
of the counties of this State, in making up their accounts
against the board of county commissioners of their
respective counties, for all such services and expenses as
are properly chargeable against said board of county
commissioners, to state fully and particularly the services
rendered, and the time and place when and where said
services were rendered, and the items of expenses incurred
in the proper discharge of their duties, which account may
include a reasonable trial fee for each case actually tried,
to be allowed in the discretion of the court, as well as the
appearance fee provided by law, and a reasonable
compensation for all other services performed by him; and
which accounts, together with the affidavit of said State's
attorneys as to the correctness thereof, and the fairness of
the charges therein made, shall be submitted by such State's
attorneys to the judges of the circuit courts for their
respective counties; and it shall be the duty of said judges
to examine said accounts, and if the items thereof are
properly chargeable against said county commissioners, and
the charges are fair and reasonable, the said judges shall
endorse on said accounts their certificate to that effect;
and upon the certificate aforesaid of the said judges, or a
majority of them, being endorsed upon said accounts, the
said accounts shall be filed with the clerk of the board of
county commissioners of the respective counties and it shall
be the duty of the county commissioners of the respective
counties to pass said accounts as certified to them by said
judges, or a majority thereof; and it shall also be the duty
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