CHARTERED COUNTIES OF MARYLAND. 923

tention and reformatories, and to regulate all persons confined therein;
to make proper provision for female and. juvenile offenders.

(D) Advertising and Printing.

To provide for county advertising, printing and publishing, including
that of all ordinances, by-laws or resolutions adopted by the County Coun-
cil and of annual statements of expenses of the County Government.

(E) Audits and Claims.

To audit the accounts of all county officers, assisting the State Auditor
or other State officer clothed with authority in the performance of this duty;
to provide for proof of all claims against the county before their payment.

(F) Contracts and Bonds.

To provide for competitive bidding for any county work and the mak-
ing and awarding of contracts requiring bonds whenever proper.

(G) Drainage.
To provide, as far as necessary, for the draining of swamp and low lands.

(H) Election Districts and Precincts.
To rearrange and create election districts and precincts.

(I) Courts and Eecords.

To provide for recording, indexing and keeping indexed all records in
the office of the Clerk of the Court, Register of Wills and of the records of
the Commissioners and County Council to the extent that such matters
are not provided for by general law; to provide for designating Justices
of the Peace who may constitute a county court, the keeping of its records,
and to fix the compensation of all judges thereof, and all officials connected
therewith, and to require an accounting to the county for all fees collected
in connection therewith; and to fix official bonds and regulate fees of the
remaining justices in the county.

(K) Health and Nuisances.

To prevent, abate and remove nuisances; to prevent the introduction of
contagious diseases into such county; to regulate the places of manufactur-
ing soap and candles and fertilizers, slaughter houses, packing houses,
canneries, factories, workshops, mines, manufacturing plants and any and
all places where offensive trades may be carried on, or which may involve
or give rise to unsanitary conditions or conditions detrimental to health.

Nothing in this Article or Section contained shall be construed to affect
in any manner any of the powers and duties of the State Board of Health,
or any Public General Laws of the State relating to the subject of health.