HARRY HUGHES, Governor

1781

keeping the prisoners and for the necessary fuel aforesaid; but
it shall not be hereafter lawful for the] THE Sheriff [to] MAY
NOT make or collect any charge for receiving [in] or releasing
ANY PRISONER from the jail [in said county any prisoner].

(b) Additional funds. The County Commissioners may[, in
their discretion,] appropriate [and provide additional] funds to
be used by [said] THE Sheriff in defraying any legitimate expense
of his office[, said funds to be provided and expended for such
purposes and for such period as the said Commissioners may
determine]. (P.L.L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 359; 1930, sec. 753;
1957 Code, sec. 580. 1880, ch. 303; 1894, ch. 243; 1918, ch. 42;
1933, ch. 1ll; 1943, ch. 166; 1945, ch. 279.) (See note (1))

30-2. Sheriff's return to Clerk of Court.

(A)   [The sheriff of Washington County shall, within ninety]
WITHIN 90 days from the conviction and sentence of any [and all
prisoners] PRISONER by the Circuit Court for Washington County,
when the penalty is a fine and costs imposed by the court[,] or
the prisoners committed into the hands of the sheriff until THE
fine and costs are paid, THE SHERIFF SHALL make a return to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Washington County in each case, on
the criminal docket of [said] THE court, as follows: When the
fine and cost imposed shall be collected by the [said] sheriff,
viz.: "Fine and costs paid and prisoner discharged".[," or in
case]

(B)   IF the [said] prisoner [so] committed into the hands of
the [said] sheriff [shall be] IS insolvent and serves the time
regulated by existing law[,] in the COUNTY jail [of said county],
in payment of [said] THE fine and costs, [then and in that event]
the [said] sheriff shall make a return to the Clerk of [said] THE
Court as follows, viz.: "Prisoner served his time in jail and
discharged".[," and the said]

(C)  THE sheriff shall [also] make returns within the same
time to the [said] Clerk of [said] THE court from the date of
their forfeiture in all recognizance at any and all times of
[said] THE court in each [particular] case as follows: "Amount of
bond collected," or what disposition he has made of [said] THE
forfeited recognizance.[, and each of said]

(D)  EACH OF THE returns shall be signed by the sheriff of
[said] THE county, and the Clerk of the [said] court shall note
upon the criminal docket in each [particular] case [thereon] the
returns thus made to him by the [said] sheriff of [said]
county.[, and upon]

(E)  ON the failure of the sheriff to [so] make [said] THE
returns as required by this section, [he shall be deemed] THE
PRISONER IS guilty of a misdemeanor and [upon conviction thereof]
shall [pay a fine to the county] BE FINED for each [such] offense
not more than [the sum of five hundred dollars,] $500 to be
imposed by the Circuit Court for Washington County and collected