PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1599

SEC. 117-B. The treasurer and collector, in the case of State
taxes, shall make application to the County Commissioners for
an allowance for all just claims, for insolvents and removals,
and he shall append thereto his affidavit, made before the said
Commissioners, that he has not received and cannot collect any
of the money for which such allowances are asked, and the
President of the Board of County Commissioners is hereby au-
thorized to administer such oath. Upon the presentation of
such application and affidavit with the certificate of the County
Commissioners appended to and endorsed thereon, setting forth
that they believe the allowances claimed to be just, the comp-
troller of the State shall make the allowances asked for, and
the County Commissioners shall likewise, in the ease of County
taxes, make all just allowances for insolvents and removals,
upon being satisfied of the justice thereof.

SEC. 118. On the first day of August, November and Feb-
ruary succeeding the levy of taxes, and oftener if the County
Commissioners require it, the said treasurer shall make to said
Commissioners a sworn report of the receipts and disburse-
ments of the public moneys and funds in his hands, for the
three preceding months, showing the sources of such receipts
and the. respective accounts for which such disbursements were
made, and on the first day of May in each year he shall make a
similar report covering the receipts and disbursements, for the
preceding year, which reports shall be countersigned by the
clerk of the Board of County Commissioners and then delivered
to the auditor of taxes, to be audited by him, as hereinafter pro-
vided.

SEC. 118-A. The treasurer and collector shall pay to the
treasurer of the Board of County School Commissioners of Dor-
chester County all moneys levied for the support of the public
schools thereof at the time, and in the manner prescribed by the
laws of this State.

SEC. 118-B. The treasurer, subject to the consent of the
County Commissioners, shall appoint such clerks as may be nec-
essary for the proper discharge of the duties of his office who
shall be deputy treasurers, shall qualify under the Constitution
of the State, and shall give bonds to the treasurer as he may
require, but the aggregate annual salary of said clerks shall in
no case exceed the sum of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00). The
County Commissioners may appoint a stenographer and type-
writer at a salary not exceeding Three Hundred and Sixty Dol-