HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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(5)  Cecil County[, and];

(6)  Garrett County[.];

(7)  Baltimore County, including motorcycles
located on any of the places enumerated in Section 214,
unless authorized; and

(8)  Howard County.

Article 10 - Attorneys at Law and Attorneys in Fact

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It shall be the duty of the respective [States] STATE'S
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
of said county commissioners to levy and collect, for the
use of the State's attorneys of their respective counties,
the amounts of money so as aforesaid certified by said
judges, or a majority of them, to be properly chargeable by
said [said] State's attorneys, at the same time and in the
same manner that other county taxes are levied and
collected; provided, that this section shall not prevent the
commissioners of any county from allowing in their
discretion, a larger sum to the State's attorney of said
county than the amount of the accounts so allowed and
certified by said court or judges. This section shall not