ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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disbursements during the preceding month, and shall

exhibit his vouchers therefor; and at the same time,

or as often thereto as he may be required, he shall

make out and exhibit a full statement of the debts due

to and due by said commissioners, and of matters re-

lating to his office; and he shall always have and

produce his said books, and the bank-book and check-

Produce books.

book, which he is required to keep by the succeeding

section, at said monthly meetings, and also at such

other meetings, or before such committee or commit-

tees as said commissioners shall order or direct, and

shall submit himself to be examined in relation thereto.

All books, documents, and papers belonging to the

treasurer's office, shall be the property and records of

Anne Arundel county, and at all times shall be subject

Property of
county.

to the examination of the county commissioners there-

of, and of the grand jury, or of any taxpayer of said

county; and it shall be the duty of the grand jury, at

each jury term of the circuit court of said county, to

appoint from their own body a committee to examine

the books and accounts of the said treasurer, and to re-

port to the circuit court the result of such examination.

All books, documents and papers, goods and chattels,

accounts and credits, money and deposits belonging to

the treasurer's office, or in his custody as treasurer,

shall be delivered up and transferred by him to his

Deliver to suc-

successor in office, when such successor is duly ap-

cessor.

pointed and qualified; provided that the tax levy or

levies placed in his hands for collection, or so much

thereof as may be uncollected or unaccounted for by

him, and for which his bond is responsible, shall not

be delivered or assigned over to his successor in office

by such treasurer, except as hereinafter provided, but

his rights, powers and duties as to collecting and re-

porting tbe same shall continue, and he shall collect

and pay over the same as collected to his successor in

office in the manner and within the period hereinafter

prescribed.

SEC. 200, SUB-SEC. 1. All money received by the

treasurer as such during his term of office shall im-

mediately, or as soon after its receipt as possible, be

deposited in such bank as the said commissioners may

designate to the credit of such commissioners; and

Deposit in bank

no money shall be drawn from the said bank except by

a check, signed by the treasurer, countersigned by the

clerk of said board of county commissioners, and en-