EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 945

(E) Audits and Claims.

To audit the accounts of all county officers, assisting the
State Auditor or other State officer clothed with authority in
the performance of this duty; to provide for proof of all claims
Against the county before their payment.

(F) Contracts and Bonds.

To provide for competitive bidding for any county work
and the making and awarding of contracts requiring bonds
whenever proper.

(G) Drainage.

To provide, as far as necessary, for the draining of swamp
and low lands.

(H) Election Districts and Precincts.
To rearrange and create election districts and precincts.
(I) Courts and Records.

To provide for recording, indexing and keeping indexed all
records in the office of the Clerk of the Court, Register of
Wills and of the records of the Commissioners and County
Council to the extent that such matters are not provided for
by general law; to provide for designating Justices of the
Peace who may constitute a county court, the keeping of its
records, and to fix the compensation of all judges thereof, and
all officials connected therewith, and to require an accounting
to the county for all fees collected in connection therewith;
and to fix official bonds and regulate fees of the remaining
justices in the county.

(K) Health and Nuisances.

To prevent, abate and remove nuisances; to prevent the
introduction of contagious diseases into such county; to regu-
late the places of manufacturing soap and candles and fertil-
izers, slaughter houses, packing houses, canneries, factories,
workshops, mines, manufacturing plants and any and all
places where offensive trades may be carried on, or which may
involve or give rise to unsanitary conditions or conditions
detrimental to health.

Nothing in this Article or Section contained shall be con-
strued to affect in any manner any of the powers and duties