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hands for the three preceding months, showing the sources of
such receipts and the respective accounts for which such dis-
bursements were made; and on the first day of July in each
year he shall make a similar report covering the receipts and
disbursements for the preceding year.

117s. The said Treasurer and Clerk shall at the expiration
of each year of his term of office make a full settlement with
the County Commissioners of all county taxes which it was his
duty to collect from the collector as far as said taxes have been
collected, and shall be allowed by the commissioners for all
moneys allowed by them to the collectors for insolvencies and
removals, and at the expiration of his term of office the said
Treasurer and Clerk is directed and required to deliver to his
successor in office all balances of collectible taxes due upon the
levies which it was duty to collect from the collectors, and
also to deliver to his successor all proceedings carried on to
enforce the payment of taxes.

118. In November in the year nineteen hundred and ten,
and in November in every second year thereafter the Circuit
Court for Dorchester County or one of the judges thereof shall
appoint a competent accountant to make a careful and thor-
'ough examination of the quarterly and yearly reports which
the Treasurer of Dorchester County and Clerk is required to
return to the County Commissioners and of such other ac-
counts and matters connected with the office of the County
Commissioners as the latter may direct. Said accountant shall
be called the "Auditor of Taxes and Accounts in Dorchester
County." Before he enters upon the discharge of the duties of
his office the said Auditor before the Clerk of the said Court
shall take and subscribe the oath of office, prescribed in Section
6 of Article 1 of the State Constitution, and he shall hold said
office for two years from the first day of January following his
appointment. For his services he shall receive such yearly
salary as the County Commissioners may fix, and he shall be
paid the same by the County Commissioners in two equal semi-
annual installments on the fourth Wednesday of June and the
fourth Wednesday of December, respectively, in every year.
He shall report in writing to the County Commissioners the re-
sult of his examination without delay. In case of a vacancy in
said office, the said court or one of the Judges thereof shall
promptly fill the office for the unexpired portion of the term.
L. Philip Skinner, who now holds said office, shall continue to
hold the same until the first day of January, in the year 1911.
The said auditor shall make as soon as practicable, and careful
and thorough examination of the quarterly and yearly reports
of Vernon S. Bradley, lately the Clerk, Treasurer Collector of