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Section 105E. And be it further enacted, That the said
Board of County Commissioners shall on or before the 1st day
of May, as aforesaid, levy upon all of the taxable property of
Dorchester County, and upon all property subject to taxation
therein, the aggregate amount of the estimates, as hereinbefore
directed to be made, after the said Board of Estimates shall
have carefully ascertained all of the various estimates and
fixed them in such amounts as they shall think or consider
proper, the said Board of County Commissioners, aforesaid,
shall levy the aggregate amount of the said estimates, and in
addition thereto they may levy not more than ten per cent of
the said aggregate of estimates which additional sum shall be
added to the total of estimates and the sum thereof shall be
the amount of the levy and no other sum or sums of money
shall be levied at all, the said levy of taxes made as aforesaid
shall become due and payable and shall be collected in the
manner and at the times now fixed by law. The said ten per
cent of the aggregate of estimates, or so much thereof as may
be levied, shall be for emergency purposes and shall be dedi-
cated and appropriated to meet any unexpected demand which
may arise after the said levy has been made, or to temporarily
be used to supply funds for some estimate when there is a de-
ficiency of revenue to meet the same.
Section 105F. And be it further enacted, That the reve-
nue derived from all of the sources thereof shall be devoted
absolutely to the paying and defraying the said estimates in
detail, and the said ten per cent of the aggregate of estimates
or whatever part of the same that may be levied, shall be
used only for emergency purposes, and in no event shall any
money be diverted from the estimate to which it is dedicated,
for any purpose.
Section 105G. And be it further enacted, That the Board
of County Commissioners of Dorchester County shall not after
the 1st day of May, 1916, create any obligation or liability
on the part of or on the credit of the county which shall be
a floating debt, and no temporary loan shall be made to pay
any deficiency arising from a failure to realize sufficient in-
come from revenue and taxation to meet the amounts provided
for in the said list of estimates; but the Board of County
Commissioners may temporarily borrow money for the use of
the county in anticipation of the receipts of taxes levied for
any year, provided that they shall not in the manner and for
the purpose aforesaid, borrow in the aggregate more than fifty
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