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such dependents, and after such dependents shall arrive at the age of
twenty-one years, or marry, then for the benefit of the mother exclusively;
and such Commissioners may pass such orders in relation to the sale,
lease or mortgage of said home as may from time to time become expedient,
with a view to effectuate the relief hereby intended for indigent depend-
ents and to prevent dependents from suffering and want, and to conserve
such relief money from waste, the County Commissioners are hereby given
plenary administrative power over the same by appropriate orders, such
personal representative shall report annually, in detail to the County Com-
missioners the status of the relief fund in his hands, but shall not be
required to account for same in the Orphans' Court; and the County
Commissioners shall require such personal representative to give bond to
the State of Maryland for the safe custody of the relief fund in his hands
in the sum of two thousand dollars, and may be allowed the first year not
exceeding two per cent, commissions on the principal thereof, and five
per cent, yearly thereafter on the income in payment for his services.
He shall deposit said relief money, not otherwise invested, in such bank
as the County Commissioners may direct and shall only draw thereon in
accordance with orders of such Commissioners. From any order passed
by said County Commissioners under this section the personal represen-
tative or any person claiming to be a dependent may appeal within sixty
days to the Circuit Court of such county, whereupon such Circuit Court
shall have jurisdiction to determine the issues of fact and law raised by
such appeal, and may pass such rules as may be judged necessary to
expedite and effectuate the determination of such issues, in which appeals

the County Commissioners shall be party defendant,
1910, ch. 153, sec. 7 (p. 490). 1912, oh. 445, sec. 7.

398. When the assessments imposed and collected by the Treasurer of
Allegany County shall amount to thirty-five thousand dollars surplus and
in Garrett County shall amount to fifteen thousand dollars surplus over
and above the pending and accrued claims on the same under this act,
such Treasurer shall report the fact to the County Commissioners of their
respective county; whereupon the said Board of County Commissioners
are hereby empowered and directed to remit temporarily the taxes hereby
imposed from month to month, as long as (and no longer) such surplus
shall exceed thirty-five thousand dollars in Allegany County and fifteen
thousand dollars in Garrett County, and when it shall be reduced to said
sums or under, mentioned above, the said tax shall become again payable
as provided by this Act. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer of his
respective county to invest under the orders of the County Commissioners
any surplus above the sum of two thousand dollars in his hands, in such
public bonds as said Commissioners may direct, and to credit such fund
with the interest derived therefrom; and upon the retirement from office
or any disqualification to act of such Treasurer the entire fund, including
such bonds and the books and papers pertaining to such fund, shall be