WICOMICO COUNTY. 5057

missioners of said County, and, unless sooner removed for cause, he
shall hold his office until January 1, 1929, and thereafter the said County
Commissioners of Wicomico County shall on or before the thirty-first day
of December, 1928, and every two years thereafter, appoint such Clerk,
and, unless sooner removed for cause, he shall hold his office for two years
from the first day of January next succeeding his appointment, and shall
receive an annual salary not to exceed Fifteen Hundred Dollars, payable
monthly by Wicomico County. The said official shall perform all his.
duties and services now required by law or which may hereafter be re-
quired of him by law, or which may be required of him by any order of
the County Commissioners. He shall make full, complete and accurate
minutes of all transactions and proceedings of the Board of County Com-
missioners and of all orders passed by said board, and record the same in
suitable and durably bound volumes with index to facilitate reference to
all such transactions, proceedings and orders; he shall endorse, file, num-
ber and index all papers presented to the said board and acted upon by
the same, and so arrange, keep and preserve them that by reference to such,
index and number such papers may at any and all times be readily found;
he shall each year immediately upon and after the annual assessment and
levy make out the assessment and levy book for each district in the County,
which shall set for the name of each taxpayer in said district and alpha-
betically for each district the aggregate amount of property, both real and
personal assessed to each person or persons, or corporation, for each dis-
trict, and the amount of State and County taxes due by each, together with
the rate of State and County tax opposite each taxpayer's name. He shall
keep all necessary, suitable and appropriate books of accounts and therein
enter in a clear, accurate and business-like manner all the financial trans-
actions of the County, and particularly showing from clay to day, and at
all times the amount of County moneys, securities and property in the
hands of the County Treasurer or any other fiduciary officer of the County,
the amount of taxes placed in the hands of the Treasurer and not accounted
for by him; the amount of each and every appropriation made by the
Board in the form of a separate account for each appropriation, and of
each and every warrant drawn by the Board thereon, with the name of the
person to whom such warrant was drawn, the number, date and amount
thereof, and also of its payment by the Treasurer or any other financial
agent of the County on whom drawn, as soon as such payment shall have
been reported unto the Board, and he shall in all respects so keep such
books that on any day the financial condition of the County and the status
of any appropriation may be exactly and truly known immediately upon
examination of said books and of the several accounts therein; he shall
also keep a warrant book of Wicomico County, from which he shall make
out every warrant which shall authorize the Treasurer of the County or
any other financial agent of the County to pay out to any person or cor-
poration, whatsoever, any sum of money, which warrant book, besides the
warrant to be removed therefrom after execution thereof by the President
of Board of County Commissioners and by such officer as Clerk of the