JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

725.

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.

CH A P. 502.

30s. 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 taxa-
ble 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 be necessary or desir-
able for the public good to spend more money than shall have
been levied for the current year, then the said County Com-
missioners 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 beard 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 of its passage so often as
renewals may be necessary before their final payment.

Prohibited
from
spending
more money
than
previously
levied, etc.

30 C. For any violation of the provisions of sections 30 A,
30 B of this Act the said County Commissioners shall be sub-
ject and liable individually to indictment, and upon conviction
they and each of them shall be liable and subject to a fine of
not more than five hundred dollars; provided, however, 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.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 11, 1902.

Penalty
tor violation.