HARFORD COUNTY. 889

eral Assembly of Maryland, 1906, Chapter 799, entitled "An
Act to empower and direct the Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Harford County to purchase fixtures for his office and to
make certain indexes of papers or proceedings therein, and
to procure from the Commissioners of the Land Office copies
of certain papers and proceedings affecting titles to land in
Harford County," be and the same is hereby amended by adding
two new sections thereto, to follow Section 4 thereof, to be
numbered Section 4A and Section 4B, and to read as follows:

SEC. 4A. That the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Harford
County shall annaully, at the time he files with the Comptroller
of the State his annual account of the fees, emoluments and
receipts of his office, as provided by Section 13 of Article 17 of
the Public General Laws of Maryland, also file with the Comp-
troller, under oath, a report of the surplus revenues of his office
that have come into his hands, whether from a retiring clerk or
from the receipts of the office under his own administration,
applicable to the payment of the purchases to be made and
work to be done under the provisions of said Act, with an
itemized account of whatever expenditures he has made in
carrying out the provisions of said Act, accompanied by
vouchers of all payments for which he claims credit, and upon
the completion of the work and other things authorized to be
done under the provisions of said Act the Clerk shall file with
the Comptroller a final report and account, with vouchers,
under oath, and shall pay over to the Treasurer of the State
any balance of said surplus revenue remaining in his hands
over and above his proper costs and expenses incurred in carry-
ing out the provisions of said Act.

And the Comptroller shall transmit a copy of said reports
and accounts, as the same shall be filed with him as aforesaid,
to the Clerk of the County Commissioners of Harford County,
to be filed in the office of said Commissioners.

SEC. 4B. That any retiring Clerk who shall not have com-
pleted during his term of office the work and other things
authorized to be done under the provisions of said Act shall,
within six (6) months after the election and qualification of
his successor in office, render him, under oath, an account of
the surplus revenues of the office that have come into his hands
during his term or terms of office, applicable under the terms
of said Act to the payment of the costs and expenses of carry-
ing out its provisions, with an itemized statement of whateyer
expenditures he may have made out of the same under the
authority of said Act, and shall thereupon pay over to his suc-
cessor in office any balance of said surplus revenues remaining
over and above said expenditures, to be used by him in com-