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financial status and condition of each of the said boards
and officers and of the said county; and whenever it
shall be deemed necessary in the judgment of the said com-
mittee, or be required by any five or more respectable tax-
payers of Frederick County, they shall summon such per-
sons as may by them be deemed necessary or be named to
them, requiring them to produce any paper, voucher or
book in their possession relating to the receipt and disburse-
ment of the public money of Frederick County, and shall
have power and authority to administer oaths and affir-
mations to the persons so summoned before them, and shall
require them to answer under oath all such questions as
shall be propounded to them by any member of said commit-
tee touching the accounts, vouchers, books and papers of the
said boards or officers; and in case any person, after being
summoned to appear before said committee shall refuse
or neglect to attend, in accordance with the requirements
of said summons, or shall refuse or neglect to produce any
vouchers, book or paper 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 or neglecting shall be deemed to be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court
of competent jurisdiction, shall, in case of a private citizen,
be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars for each and
every refusal to answer or 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, in the discre-
tion of the court, and if fined only, shall stand committed
until the fine and costs are paid; the fines to be paid to
the county treasurer for the benefit of the county.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1935.

Approved: April 29, 1935.

CHAPTER 125.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sec-
tion 136 of Article 11 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland (1930 Ed. ) title "Frederick County, " sub-