EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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and faithfully discharge the duties of a member of the said

auditing committee without fear, favor or partiality; and if

any person appointed as aforesaid shall for any cause fail to

qualify as aforesaid, or qualifying, shall refuse to act as a

member of the said auditing committee, the remaining member

or members of the said committee are hereby authorized and

empowered to fill said vacancy or vacancies and proceed to

the discharge of the duties of said committee as hereinafter set

forth.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the

said committee, on the second Monday in July next ensuing

Duty of said
committee.

their appointment, to proceed to carefully examine the ac-

counts, vouchers, receipts and other papers connected with

the receipts and disbursement of the public money by each

of the aforegoing boards and officers, except that the accounts

of the Board of County School Commissioners and the treas-

urer thereof shall not be audited before August 1 of each

year in such manner as to show the true financial status

and condition of each of the said boards and officers of

the said county; and whenever it shall be deemed necessary,

in the judgment of the said committee, or be required by

any five or more respectable taxpayers of Kent County, they

shall summons such persons as may be by them deemed ne-

cessary, or be named to them, requiring them to produce

any paper, voucher or book in their possession relating to the

Requiring in-

receipt or disbursement of the public money of Kent County,

terested par-
ties to pro-

and shall have power and authority to administer oaths and

duce books,

affirmations to the persons so summoned before them, and

shall require them to answer under oath all such questions

as shall be propounded to them by any member of the said

committee touching the accounts, vouchers, books and papers

of any of the said boards or officers ; and in case any person,

after being summoned to appear before said committee, shall

refuse or neglect to attend in accordance with the requirements

of said summons, or shall refuse or neglect to produce any

vouchers, books or paper required by said summons to be pro-

duced, or shall refuse to be sworn or affirmed, or being sworn

and affirmed shall refuse to answer, the person . so refusing

to answer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon

conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction,

shall, in case of a private citizen, be fined not exceeding one

Penalty for re-

hundred dollars for each and every refusal to answer or be

fusal to an-
swer or ne-

sworn or affirmed, and shall stand committed until the fines

glect to per-
form certain

and costs are paid, and in case of any of the members of any

things.