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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 348

The judges of the orphans' court of the county shall be
exempt from serving as jurors in the circuit court for the
county.]

[5-803.

The county council is hereby authorized to levy for and pay
to the register of wills of the county annually the sum of one
hundred and fifty dollars to pay for recording the proper dockets
of administration and providing for. the orphans' court.]

[5-1100.

The sheriff shall collect all fees and charges in civil and
criminal cases to which his office may be entitled by law, and
shall exercise all powers conferred upon him by law to enforce
the collection of the same, and shall keep a systematic and
complete record of all such cases and collections from the same,
and shall in each month, make a full and detailed report of all
fees charged for, and also all fees received by him for the
preceding month in all cases to the controller; such statements
and reports to be under oath of the sheriff, and the statements
and reports to be accompanied by the sheriff's check for all of
such fees in such cases collected by him during the preceding
month. The amounts so charged for expenses of deputies shall be
reasonable and shall not exceed a maximum schedule to be
prescribed by the council and filed with the sheriff. Whenever
any sheriff shall retire from office, leaving uncollected any
costs, fees or charges in civil and criminal cases lawfully
payable to him or his office, it shall be the duty of his
successor to collect and pay over the same in the manner above
prescribed, and it shall be the duty of the sheriff to keep in
his office, in proper books for the purpose, an official record
of the fees and charges to be collected by him and those which
have been so collected, which books shall remain in his office
after the expiration of his term for the use of his successor.]

[5-1101.

For the purpose of verifying and checking up the accounts
and reports of the sheriff provided for in the preceding section,
it shall be the duty of the clerk of the circuit court of the
county, at the end of every term of such court, to submit to the
county controller a list of all criminal cases of such term where
the costs have been adjudged against the county, together with a
statement of such costs, and also a statement of all fees, in
criminal cases, charged or received by the sheriff during such
term.]

[5-1200.

The county council shall allow the state's attorney the
expenses incurred by him in the conduct of his office, and in
following and trying criminal cases, and for the equipment of his
office.]