The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-05-30
Local LGWs.
0UBLIC LOCAL LAW.
THE SHERLF.FS FEE Ia W.
CHAPTER 400

CHAPTER 400.
AN ACT to repeal section one hundred and nine
ty-three of article three of the Code Of Public
Local Laws of Baltimore county, subtitle
''Sherif," passed at the January Session of the
Legislature, in the year eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, chapter fifty nine, and to re-enact
the same so as to read as follows:
SECTION l. Be ii enacted By the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That section one hundred and
unety-three of article three of the Public Local
| LAWS of Baltimore county, subtitle "Sheriff," 4"
passed at the January Session Of the Legislature
III Maryland in the year eighteen hundred and
seveDty-twO, chapter fty-nine, be and the same
Is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as
| fellows:
Sec l93 The Sheriff of Baltimore county shall
be allowed two dollars and fifty cents day for
each day he shall attend the Circuit Court for
said county in person or by deputy when said
Court is actually in session, and shall be entitled
10 charge and receive the sum Of forty cents and
no more, per day for keeping and boarding each
prisoner committed to or confined in the Jail of
said county. This part of this Act to take effec,
and 60 into operation at, upon and Immediately
after the expiration of the term Of office of the
present Sheriff of said county
SUB-SEo /. And be.n faather eaacted Thal he
County Commissioners o. sa "a county may, in the
exercise of a careful, wise and sound discretion
and of a scrutinzing Judgment on their part, al
low the Sheriff of said county such further COM
pensatlon for serving bench warrants aad attach
ments and performing extra duty as may seem
right and proper, and air and reasonable CON-
pensation for such services, provided, however,
that before said County Commissioners pay, or
order ~ be paid to the Sheriff OF said couniy
any sum OF money for serving any bench warrant
or bench warrants, attachment or attachments,
or for p'r'or iiing extra duty OF any kind other
than those allowed in article ti,irtyeighr,
section twen -seTPn - the code of Public Geucr-
al Laws of Nj r., iaai, petition shall he flied
with said C,nniJ Commissioners for each and
every separate case where such extra compenSa-
ton is asked, which said petition shall Lc c4te-
fully kept and preserved ia the Office of the said
Commissioners, and shall set forth with accuracy,
particularly, minuteness, exactness and ia detail,
The nature and kind of services for which said
extra compensation is asked, the time consumed
in performing the same, the circumstances at
tending the performance of said services, and
each petition shall show clearly and plainly why
any such extra compensation is asked and why
such extra services were necessary, and said petit
ton shall be verified by the oath or affirmation
the case may be, Of the Sheriff of said county
himself and of the deputy who performed such
services, in case they were performed by depu-
ty aud it shall be the duty OF said County Com
mlssioners to examine carefully each petition so
filed in which extra compensation is asked, and
TO see that the requirements OF this Act strict
ly complied with and said County Commission
ers shall not pay out or order to be paid any
claims for extra compensation as aforesaid unless
each and every provision of this Act is fully COM
piled with, and unless there is annexed to each
petition for extra compensation in each and every
case an affidavit or affirmation, as the case may
be- of the truth of the matters set forth in such
petition, and that such extra services were abso-
lu,ely aud udspeusably necessary in each case for
which extra compensation is asked or claimed
and said County Commissioners, after all the re-
quirements Of this Act are complied with, saall
then pay only such sum for extra compensa ion
as shall appear to them to be fair, reasonable
and proper compensation and unless fully and
entirely satisfied, after examination OF said petit
tioR, and other investigation if necessary in their
judgment, that the extra services for which such
extra compensation is claimed, were absolutely
necessary.
SUB-SEo. 2 And be ii further enacted, That sub
section one shall take effect from and after the
date Of the passage of this Act.
We hereby certify that the aorcgoiBg is a cor
rect copy of an Act of Assembly passed January
Session, 1874
Approved April l1th, 1874.
MILTON Y. KIDD,
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AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
Secretary OF the Senate.
D. j. MCCAULEY,
EDWARD RIDER,
BENZ. F. JORDAN,
County Commissioners for Baltimore Co.
May 9.-3t.