5126 ARTICLE 23.

SCHOOLS.*

1918, ch. 485, sec. 1.

344. The Board of County Commissioners of Wicomico County are
hereby authorized and directed to cause the books of the School Board to
be audited by a well-known and approved firm of certified public account-
ants.

The said Board of County Commissioners of Wicomico County shall

cause the said audit to commence with the year nineteen hundred and four
and to include each year thereafter up to and including the year nineteen
hundred and eighteen, or so much of the said year of 1918 as shall be
possible with the completion of the audit within the said year nineteen
hundred and eighteen.

The said Board of County Commissioners of Wicomico County shall,
immediately upon this Act becoming effective, contract with a well-known
and approved firm of certified public accountants to do the work of audit-
ing the said books as hereinbefore provided for, and have the said work

of so auditing the said books begin at as early a date as possible after this
Act goes into effect.

The said Board of County Commissioners of Wicomico County shall
direct and require the auditors employed to audit the said books to make

a report upon the completion of the said audit, showing all of the assets
and liabilities, outstanding bond issues, interest owing, notes and other
evidences of indebtedness of said School Board, and the said report shall
be immediately printed by the County Commissioners, and sufficient copies
thereof placed in the office of the County Treasurer that any taxpayer may
procure one.

1918, ch. 485, sec. 2.

345. The said Board of County Commissioners for Wicomico County
shall on or before the first day of July, nineteen hundred and eighteen,
levy upon all of the taxable property of Wicomico County and upon
all property subject to taxation therein a sum of money sufficient to de-
fray the cost of the work of auditing the books as aforesaid, and for the
printing of the report of the said auditors.

SHARPTOWN.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 23, sec, 159. 1888, ch. 210. 1912, oh. 635, sec. 159.

346. The inhabitants of the Town of Sharptown, in Wicomico county,

are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of the "Commis-
sioners of Sharptown," and by that name shall have perpetual succession,

*Ch. 324, 1906, authorized the School Commissioners to organize high schools in
Delmar and Sharptown and for appropriation for support of same, but the general
school law and the State Budget has superseded this Act.

Bonds for schools have been authorized as follows: 1904, ch. 100, $20.000; 1910,
ch. 12 (p. 1189), $30,000; 1914, ch. 764, $25,000; 1929, ch. 196, $300,000 (approved
by the voters).