EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1397

Monday of June following their appointment, of the Board of
County School Commissioners and the treasurer thereof on
the third Monday of August following their appointment, in
such manner as to show the true financial status and condition
of each of the said boards and officers of the said county; and
whenever it shall be deemed necessary in the judgment of the
said committee, or be required by any five or more respectable
taxpayers of Harford County, they shall summon such per-
sons as may be by them deemed necessary or be named to
them, requiring them to produce any paper, voucher or book in
their possession relating to the receipt or disbursement of the
public money of Harford County, and shall have the power
and authority to administer oaths and affirmations to the per-
sona so summoned before them, and shall require them to an-
swer under oath all such questions as shall be propounded to
them by any member of the said committee touching the ac-
counts, vouchers, books and papers of any of the said boards
or officers; and in case any person after being summoned be-
fore said committee, shall refuse or neglect to attend in accord-
ance with the requirements of said summons, or shall refuse or
neglect to produce any voucher, books or papers required by
said summons to be produced, or shall refuse to be sworn or
affirmed, or being sworn or affirmed, shall refuse to answer,
the person so refusing to appear or neglecting to produce any
vouchers, books or papers, or refusing to be sworn or affirmed,
or refusing to answer, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court of com-
petent jurisdiction shall, in case of a private citizen, be fined
not exceeding one hundred dollars for each and every refusal
to appear, or to produce any vouchers, books or papers or to
answer to be sworn or affirmed, and shall stand committed
until the fines and costs are paid, and in case of any of the
members of any of the said boards and officers, be fined not
exceeding five hundred dollars or be confined in the County Jail
for a period of not more than six months or be both fined and
imprisoned, at the discretion of the Court, and if fined, only,
shall stand committed until the fines and costs are paid; the
fines to be paid to the County Treasurer for the benefit of the
County.

81. The members of said auditing committee shall be al-
lowed annually for their services in auditing the accounts of
the boards and officers named in this Act, the sum of one
hundred and fifty dollars each, together with such other sum