490 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

such relief money from waste, the County Commissioners are
hereby given plenary administrative power over the same by
appropriate orders, such personal representative shall report
annually in detail to the County Commissioners the status of
the relief fund in his hands, but shall not be required to ac-
count for same in the Orphans' Court; and the County Com-
missioners shall require such personal representative to give
bond to the State of Maryland for the safe custody of the re-
lief fund in his hands in the sum of two thousand dollars, and
may be allowed the first year not exceeding two per cent, com-
missions on the principal thereof, and five per cent, yearly
thereafter on the income in payment for his services. He shall
deposit said relief money, not otherwise invested, in such
bank as the County Commissioners may direct and shall only
draw thereon in accordance with orders of such Commission-
ers. From any order passed by said County Commissioners
under this section the personal representative or any person
claiming to be a dependent may appeal within sixty days to
the Circuit Court of such county, whereupon such Circuit
Court shall have jurisdiction to determine the issues of fact
and law raised by such appeal, and may pass such rules ad
may be judged necessary to expedite and effectuate the deter-
mination of such issues, in which appeals the County Commis-
sioners shall be party defendant.

SEC. 7. If at any time the relief money payable hereunder
shall exceed in amount the sum in the hands of the Treasurer
for that purpose, so that the fund be depleted, then the Treas-
urer of Allegany county or Garrett county, as the case may
be shall advance to the Treasurer of such depleted fund, so far
as able, such sum as may be necessary to pay any accrued re-
lief money, which shall be repaid by the said borrowing Treas-
urer out of the first available receipts derived from such tax.

And if it shall so happen, at any time, that the proceeds im-
posed and collected by the Treasurers of Allegany and Gar-
rett counties shall in the aggregate funds of both Treasurers
exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars surplus, over and
above the pending and accrued claims on the same under this
Act, such Treasurer shall report the fact to the County Com-
missioners of such counties; whereupon the said Board of
County Commissioners are hereby empowered and directed to
remit temporarily the taxes hereby imposed from month to
month, as long as (and no longer than) such surplus shall ex-
ceed fifty thousand dollars in amount, and when it shall be
reduced to said sum or under, then the said tax shall become
again payable as provided by this Act. It shall be the duty
of the Treasurer to invest under the orders of the County Com-