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suitable person for the remainder of the term for which said appointment
shall have been made, and such appointee shall in like manner make oath
and execute a bond for the performance of his duties in the manner and
.vithin the time aforesaid.

State v. Denton, 74 Md. 517.

1892, ch. 139, sec. 44A.

67. It shall be the duty of said clerk to receive from the county com-
missioners of said county all moneys levied and collected for county pur-
poses and also all other moneys which may be coming to said county from
any source whatsoever, which said moneys, when so received, shall dur-
ing banking hours of that day, be deposited by him to the credit of the
clerk of the county commissioners of Howard County, in such bank or
banks as the said county commissioners may designate, but no money
shall be drawn from said bank or banks except by check signed by said
clerk and countersigned by the president or some one member of said
county commissioners acting for the time being as the president thereof;
and said moneys shall be paid over by the said county commissioners to
said clerk immediately after receiving the same, and said clerk shall
receipt to said commissioners therefor.

1892, ch. 139, sec. 44B.

68. Said clerk shall make no payment, except upon an order directed
to him and signed by at least a majority of said county commissioners;
and all orders so drawn shall bear the same number and date and be for the
same amount as the stub to which they were attached, and each order shall
state for what purpose it is given, and shall embrace but one class of
expenditures.

1892, ch. 139, sec. 44C.

69. That it shall be the duty of said clerk to keep a current cash
account, upon which shall be regularly entered all moneys received and
orders taken as cash, by him, the date thereof and the source whence the
same were derived; also all moneys disbursed or expended, the dates
thereof, and the purpose for which it was applied and at the end of each
meeting day said account shall be balanced by said clerk and examined
by said commissioners on the following meeting day immediately upon
assembling of their board, and it shall be the further duty of said clerk
to also balance said account at the end of each year of his appointment
and the aggregate amounts shall then show the total of all moneys re-
ceived by the county from all sources and the entire amount expended
for all purposes during the year.

1892, ch. 139, sec. 44D. 1904, ch. 83. 1914, ch. 518. 1920, ch. 486. 1927, ch. 389.

70. It shall also be the duty of said Clerk to make a semi-annual state-
ment to the said County Commissioners on the first Tuesday of May