WASHINGTON COUNTY. 4725

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec- 96. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 85. 1910, ch. 510, sec. 96 (p. 1179).

1924, ch. 35. 1927, ch. 342.

144. The County Clerk shall receive for his services an annual salary
of twenty-four hundred dollars ($2,400.00) and no more, payable in equal
monthly installments by the County Commissioners of Washington Coun-
ty, and the said County Commissioners are hereby authorized and required
to levy the needful taxes on the assessable property within the county liable
to taxation as shall be sufficient to pay said salary.

1910, oh. 510, sec. 97 (p. 1179).

145. The county clerk shall at all reasonable times permit any tax-
payer of the county to examine and make copies of any books, papers,
records and accounts pertaining to the business of the County Cornmis-

sioners.

P. L. L, 1888, Art. 22., sec. 98. 1876, ch. 83.

146. He is authorized and empowered to administer an oath or affirma-
tion to any person presenting a claim to said commissioners against the

county, for which service he shall not be entitled to make any charge,
the same being hereby made a part of his official duty.

P. L. L,., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 99. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 87.

147. The county commissioners, in cases of visitation from cholera or
like epidemics in said county, may provide for the payment of all ex-
penses that may be incurred in procuring temporary hospitals and, attend-
ance upon the poor of said county who shall become the victims thereof.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 100. 1886, ch. 325.

148. They are authorized and empowered to offer a reward for the
arrest and conviction of criminals for offenses committed within said

county, whenever in their judgment the nature and character of the
offense will warrant it, and to levy upon the assessed property of the

county to pay the same; provided, however, that the reward to be paid in

any one case shall not exceed one hundred dollars.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 101. 1878, ch. 3. 1914, ch. 94, sec. 101.

149. When they make their levy, said levy shall not be made in gross,
but shall designate the particular heads for which it is to be expended,
and they shall specify therein what por centum is levied for school
purposes, what per centum for bonded indebtedness of said County, what
per centum for court purposes, what per centum for road purposes, and

what per centum for each particular head, for which expenditure is to be
made, specified by them; and they shall not, in any one year, levy on the
assessable property of the County more than five cents on the one hundred
dollars thereof for general purposes, which latter shall include all matters
not embraced under any of the particular or specified heads or headings.
In no event shall the money levied for one purpose be expended for any

other purpose.