The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-05-09
TIE SHERIFF S FEE LAW.
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CHAPTER 400
AN ACT to repeal section one hundred and nine
ty-three o. 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 niue, and to re-enact
the same so as to read as follows:
| SECTION l. BE ii enacted By the General Assem-
big of Maryland, That section one hundred and
ninety three of article three of the Public Local
Laws of Baltimore county, subtitle "Sherif ~
passed at the January Session of ne Legislature
| of Mary land, in the rear eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, chapter fftyp niue be and the same
is hereby repealed and re-enaced so as to read as
| follows:
| Sec. 1913 The Sheriff of Baltimore county shall
be allowed two dollars and fifty cents day for
each day be shall attend the Circuit Court for
said county in person by deputy when said
Court is actually in session, and shall be entitled
to 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 effect
and go into operation at, upon and Immediately
after the expiration of the term of office Of the
present Sheriff OF said county.
SUB Sec l. And be ii further enacted, That the
County Commissioners Of said county may, in the
exercise Of careful, wise and sound discretion
and of a scrutiuzing judgment on their part, al
low the Sheriff of said county such further COM
pensation for serving bench warra MIS- nd attach
ments and performing extra duty as may seem
right and proper, and fair and reasonable CON-
pensation for such services, provided, however
that before said County Commissioners pay, or
order to be paid, to the Sheriff of said county
any sum of money for serving any bench warrant
or bench warrants, attachment or attachments
or for performing extra duty of any kind other
than those fees allowed in article thirty-eight,
section twenty-seven OF the code OF Public Gener-
al Laws of Mary petition shall be filed
with said County Commissioners for each and
every separate case where such extra compensa-
ton is asked, which said petition shall be care.
fully kept and preserved in 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 cath or affirmation,
as 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 and il shall be the duty of said County Com
misSioners to examine carefully each petition so
filed in which extra compensation is asked, and
to see that the requirements of this Act are strict
ly complied with and said County Commission
ers shall not pay out or order to he paid any
claims for extra compensation aforesaid unless
each and every provision of this Act is fully CON-
piled with, and unless there is annexed 10 each
petition Tor extra compensation in each and every
case an affidavit or affirmation, the case may
be, Of the truth of the matters set forth in such
petition, and that such extra services were abso-
lutely aud indspensaby necessary in each case for
which extra compensation is asked or claimed
and said County Commissioners, after all the re-
quremeuts of this Act are complied with, shall
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
ZION, and other investigation il necessary in their
judgment, that the extra services for which such
extra compensation is claimed were absolutely
necessary.
SUB-SEo Q Andbe il. 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 aforegoing is a cor
rect copy of an Act of Assembly passed January
Session, 1874
Approved April 18th, 1874
MILTON Y. KIDD,
Chief Clerk Of the House of Delegates
AUGUSTUS GASSAWAY,
Secretary of the Senate.
D. j. MoCAULEY
EDWARD RIDER
BENZ F. JORDAN,
County Commissioners for Baltimore Co.
May 9.-3t.