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accounts, vouchers, books, papers, proceedings or any other
thing pertaining to said Board of County School Commissioners
and Treasurer thereof for Caroline County, the Trustees of the
Poor of Caroline County, and the County Treasurers and County
Commissioners for Caroline County, and in case any person or
persons after being summoned to appear before said accountant
shall refuse or neglect to attend in accordance with the require-
ments of said summons or shall refuse to be sworn or affirmed,
or being sworn or affirmed shall refuse to answer, the person
so refusing shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof, before any Court of competent jurisdiction,
shall be fined not to exceed one hundred dollars for each and
every refusal to answer or to be sworn or affirmed and shall
stand committed until the fine and costs are paid.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the person appointed as accountant as aforesaid, within fifteen
days, accounting from the first day of July of the year of his
appointment, to take and subscribe before the Clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court for Caroline County, an oath to well and fairly dis-
charge his duties without fear, favor or partiality, and if any
person appointed as aforesaid shall, for any cause, fail to qualify
as aforesaid, within fifteen days after such appointment, the
said Board of County Commissioners shall continue to employ
a certified public accountant, until they succeed in having one
qualify as aforesaid.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said accountant
be allowed for his services in auditing and examining the ac-
counts, vouchers, books, papers and proceedings as named in
this Act not to exceed the sum of Twenty-five Dollars per day,
together with such expenses for stationery, costs, if any, of sum-
moning witnesses and witness fees as herein set forth, all of
which shall be paid by the Board of County Commissioners for
Caroline County.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Board of County
Commissioners shall immediately publish in pamphlet form said
report, and shall ask bids from practical printers to print at
least twelve hundred copies of said report annually, and shall
accept the lowest responsible bid. They shall distribute by mail
not less than eight hundred copies to representative citizens of
the County and place the remaining copies of the report in the
office of the County Commissioners for Caroline County to be
distributed in such manner as said County Commissioners may
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