ART. 1. ] COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 17

the duties of his office, which bond shall be recorded in the office
of the clerk of the circuit court for said county.

P. L. L., (1860, ) art. 1, sec. 17.

35. The said clerk shall also, before one of said commissioners,
take and subscribe the following oath: "I, A. B., do swear that
as clerk to the county commissioners of Allegany county, I will
honestly and faithfully, to the best of my skill and judgment,
execute the duties of said office, without favor, affection, preju-
dice or partiality, so help me God. "

1880, ch. 397.

36. He shall be entitled to such compensation as shall be fixed
by the county commissioners, and he shall have power to admin-
ister oaths to all road supervisors who come before said commis-
sioners to settle their accounts, touching the fairness and truth of
such accounts, and to all persons who come before said commis-
sioners to make transfers, or ask for rebates or reductions, or
other changes in assessments on the assessment books of said
county, and shall have power to take affidavits to all papers to be
filed in the office of said commissioners.

1872, ch. 65. 1874, ch. 40.

37. The county commissioners shall annually levy upon the
assessable property of Allegany county a special tax, sufficient to
pay the interest on the bonds issued under the acts of 1872, chap-
ter 65, and 1874, chapter 40, and to retire five thousand dollars
of the principal thereof annually; and the money thus raised
shall be known and kept as the " court house and jail fund, " and
shall be applied by the county commissioners to the payment of
the principal and interest of said bonds as aforesaid, and to no
other purpose whatever; and said tax shall be collected as all other
State and county taxes are collected in Allegany county.

Ibid.

38. The county commissioners are authorized and empowered
to have all the buildings belonging to said county insured, in such
sum or sums as they may deem necessary, in some well-known,