It shall be the duty of the respective 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
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 apply to Garrett County, Allegany
County, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore County, Worcester County, Prince
George's County, Calvert County, Montgomery County, or Washington
County.
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