JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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debt, how many cents or the fraction thereof for interest
on bonded debt, how many cents or the fraction thereof
for discharge of bonded debt, how many cents or the
fraction thereof for schools, and how many cents or the
fraction thereof for each of the other items of expen-
ditures by classes ; and it shall be the duty of the treasurer to
keep a distinct fund according to such levy for each class,
and he shall not allow any payment to be made by draft upon
any distinct fund which has been exhausted, so that no fund
"shall be overdrawn, except, however, it shall be lawful for the
treasurer to transfer a balance appropriated to one fund,
which may not be needed to another fund which is about to
become exhausted ; provided, the same be done by the order
of the County Commissioners.

CHAP. 323.

30 B. The County Commissioners of Allegany County are
hereby prohibited from spending during any fiscal year more
money than they shall have previously levied upon the taxable
basis of Allegany county to meet the necessary expenses of
said county except upon conditions that, whenever in the
judgment of said commissioners it shall become necessary or
desirable for the public good to spend more money than shall
have been levied from the current year, then the said County
Commissioners shall publish a notice in one of the daily news-
papers in Allegany county twice a week for two successive
weeks, warning the public of said deficiency, and the object
of the proposed increased expenditure and the proposed loans
occasioned thereby, and naming therein a day at which the
said commissioners will meet to determine the advisability of
making said expenditure in excess of the levy and of making
any loans that said board may consider necessary therefor; and
at said meeting any taxpayer, who may appear, shall have the
right to be heard in opposition to any such expenditures
or loans that said expenditures may occasion ; but nothing
contained in the provisions of this Act shall restrict said
County Commissioners in renewing promissory notes of said
county outstanding at the date passage so often as renewals
may be necessary before their final payment.

Prohibited
from
spending
more money
than levied
during fiscal
year.

30 C. For any violations of the provisions of sections 30 A
and 30 B of this Act the said County Commissioners shall be
subject and liable individually to indictment, and upon convic-
tion they and each of them shall be liable and subject to a
fine of not more than tive hundred dollars; provided, how-
ever, that if any commissioner shall have voted against the
passage of such unlawful Act such vote shall be conclusive
evidence of his innocence, and he shall not be indicted.

Liable to
indictment
and
conviction.