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1904, ch. 527. 1914 Code, sec. 161.

215. It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners to carefully
examine and scrutinize all claims for fees of justices of the peace and con-
stables against the county, and they shall have the power and authority
and are hereby directed to reject any charges made by justices of the peace
and constables when in the judgment of the County Commissioners com-
plaints were made to such justices and warrants were issued without prob-
able cause, or when more than one warrant has been issued for offenses
growing out of but one transaction or violation of law.

P. L. K, 1888, Art. 2, sec. 122. 1914 Code, sec. 162.

216. It shall not be lawful for said Commissioners to become surety
for any person appointed to or holding office under them.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 123. 1894, ch. 472. 1898, ch. 98. 1904, ch. 435.
1908, ch. 591. 1914 Code, sec. 163.

217. The County Commissioners shall, at the time of making their
levy upon the taxable property of said county for county and State pur-
poses, make such additional levy as is now or may hereafter be fixed by
law for the support of the public schools of said county, and may, in
their discretion, levy such additional rate as they may deem necessary
to promote the efficiency of said schools, such levy, however, in the aggre-
gate, not to exceed thirty-three cents on the hundred dollars, which levy
shall be free and clear from all discounts, insolvencies and commissions
or other deduction of any kind whatsoever. The school tax so fixed by
law and levied in the discretion of the County Commissioners shall be
made separate from the levy for other county and State purposes, and
shall constitute a separate fund, and shall not be used for any other
purposes than that for which it is levied, and said school taxes shall be
paid directly to the school board of said county by the county treasurer
on the order of the County Commissioners.

School Commissioners v. Gannt, 73 Md. 521.

P. L. L., 1888. Art. 2, sec. 124. 1902, ch. 433. 1914 Code, sec. 164.

218. They shall, on the first day of June in the year nineteen hundred
and two, and on the same day in every year thereafter, levy all needful
taxes on the assessable property within the county liable to taxation, and
what is now classed as the county tax shall not exceed fifty-five cents on
the hundred dollars, and what is now classed as road tax shall not exceed
twenty-five cents on the hundred dollars in the First, Second and Eighth
Election Districts, and not to exceed forty-five cents on the hundred dol-
lars in the Third, Fourth and Fifth Election Districts of said county;
and they shall at the end of each month, enter upon the record of their
proceedings the proportionate part of said rate of taxes expended or con-
tracted for during the month. If the said County Commissioners shall
find that the said rate of taxes will not exceed the necessary and indis-
pensable expenses of the county they may, after ten days' previous notice