DORCHESTER COUNTY. 2231
county treasurer, after which the said Board of Estimates shall by an
affirmative vote of a majority of all the members thereof, make out a list
of moneys, expenditures, disbursements or estimates showing for what
particular purpose all money is to be appropriated by the County Com-
missioners for the next ensuing fiscal year, each estimate shall be in full
detail and to plainly show for what purpose and in what amount the
money so appropriated is to be expended, and the said Board of Esti-
mates or a majority of the members thereof shall sign the said list of
estimates and their signatures thereto be attested by their secretary; and
the said board or a majority of the members thereof shall certify that
each and every estimate in said list is in their opinion, a necessary and
proper estimate, after which they shall file the said list of estimates with
the county treasurer, and both the schedule of resources and also the said
list of estimates shall be published for at least three weeks, in not less'than
two newspapers of general circulation, published in Dorchester County.
1916, ch. 27, sec. 105D.
150. It shall be the duty of the said Board of Estimates and they shall
require from each board and each and every official through whom and
under whom any appropriation of money to be made by the County
Commissioners is to be expended, an estimate, for such appropriation to
be made and certified to by such board or a majority of the members
thereof or official, chief or head of any department, showing how much
money will be required for each particular estimate or purpose for which
the money is to be spent, and showing the same in full detail for the
ensuing fiscal year, and it shall be the duty of any such board or official
to furnish the said estimate to the Board of Estimates not later than
the 15th day of April, of each and every year beginning with April,
1916, and the said Board of Estimates shall have full power to require-
of any board or official under whose jurisdiction or superintendence or
whose official duties incur the expenditure of the county money, the esti-
mate herein mentioned, and it shall be the duty of any such board or
official to render the same when required.
1916, ch. 27, sec. 105E.
151. The said Board of County Commissioners shall on or before the
1st day of May, as aforesaid, levy upon all of the taxable property of
Dorchester County, and upon all property subject to taxation therein, the
aggregate amount of the estimates, as hereinbefore directed to be made,
after the said Board of Estimates shall have carefully ascertained all of the
various estimates and fixed them in such amounts as they shall think or
consider proper, the said Board of County Commissioners, aforesaid, shall
levy the aggregate amount of the said estimates, and in addition thereto
they may levy not more than ten per cent, of the said aggregate of esti-
mates which additional sum shall be added to the total of estimates and
the sum thereof shall be the amount of the levy and no other sum or-
sums of money shall be levied at all, the said levy of taxes made as afore-
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