496 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

shall be the duty of the Grand Jury at each jury term of the
Circuit Court for said county to appoint from their own body
a committee to examine the books and accounts of the said
treasurer, and to report to the Circuit Court the results of
such examination. All books, documents and papers, goods
and chattels, accounts and credits, money and deposits belong-
ing to the treasurer's office or in his custody as treasurer, shall
be delivered up and transferred by him to his successor in
office when his successor is duly elected and qualified; and such
treasurer shall receive as full compensation for all serivces and
duties required of and performed by him the sum of twelve
hundred dollars ($ 1,200) per annum, payable in installments
of one hundred dollars ($100) each, upon the order of said
Board of County Commissioners of Allegany County, and at
the end or expiration of his term of office such treasurer shall
immediately transfer and deliver to his in office all books, ac-
counts, vouchers, papers of every kind relating to the duties of
or connected with his office, and pay over all moneys received
for said county that may then be in his custody, charge or con-
trol belonging to said county to successor or as the County
Commissioners may direct.

4lA. All money received by the treasurer, as such, during
his term of office shall immediately, or as soon after its receipt
as possible, be deposited in bank to the credit of such commis-
sioners; and no money shall be drawn from the said bank ex-
cept by check signed by the president, countersigned by the
clerk of the County Commissioners, and endorsed by the per-
son to whom it is drawn, except that the road directors may
draw as provided by the Act creating the same; the treasurer
shall make no payments in money except-by check as aforesaid,
and all checks so drawn by him shall be drawn from a check
book with stubs, and shall be regularly dated and numbered,
and the stub of each check drawn shall correctly describe the
check and the object for which it was drawn particularly; the
stubs shall be signed and countersigned in the same manner as
the check drawn therefrom; and the bank book showing the
condition of the bank account aforesaid shall be kept regularly
posted, or he shall reserve put of the money collected by him
for county purposes generally and public schools a sufficient
sum to pay the amount levied in each current year by said
commissioners for public schools, and shall pay the same over
to the Board of County School Commissioners of said county,
as follows: One-fourth on or before the first day of November
next succeeding the date of the levy; one-fourth on or before
the first day of February next thereafter; one-fourth on or be-