COMMISSIONERS OF TAX.

1821

that the said commissioners thereafter shall make all their ap-
pointments of such officers annually between the first Monday
of April and the first Monday of September.

Annual ap-
pointments.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners of
the tax be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to
borrow on the credit and faith of the said county, a sum of
money not exceeding two thousand dollars, to be applied to the
erection of public buildings in said county and to other county
purposes, which said sum of money may be repaid out of any
money which the said commissioners are authoiized to levy.

AN ACT directing the Commissioners of the Tax of Carroll County to
publish, annually, a full statement of their Receipts and Disbursements.
1837, ch. 277.

Loan of
$2,000 Au-
thorized.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the commissioners of the tax of Carroll county shall
hereafter close their annual levy by the third week in Sept^m-
ber in every year, and shall publish a fair and accurate state-
ment of all receipts and expenditures of the twelve months
next preceding, in the several newspapers printed in said
county, in the third week in September annually, under the

Publication
directed.

penalty of a forfeiture of the said commissioners' compensation
during the twelve months aforesaid, in case of their failure to
make such publication.

Penalty.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said statement shall
enumerate the respective sums collected in each election dis-
trict, and the several sources from which said receipts are
derived; and also shall designate the various sums disbursed
in each election district, and the purposes to which the same
shall have been appropiiated ; stating with reference to the
following heads of expenditures or allowances, the aggregate
amount of each one of them separately, to wit: The pay of
each of the commissioners of the county ; the pay of the clerk,
attorney, and any other person or persons in their service; fees
paid for legal services and advice ; fees and allowances to pub-
lic officers, distinguishing those to each class of officers sepa-
rately ; the holding of the courts, and all charges coming under
that head, specifying how much thereof on account of jurors,
and also how much on account of witnesses, payable by the
county ; the support of the prison, and all charges connected
therewith or relating to prisoners; the support of the alms
house and its inmates, with a statement of how much allowed
to its officers, and how much for the pay of the trustees, allowed
to indigent out-pensioners ; the holding of elections ; repairs
and erections of public buildings, showing separately the sum
expended on each one ; repairs of old and erection of new
bridges, designating how much on account of each of them ; re-

Particulars
therein
required.