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the conduct and acts of said County Commissioners, County
Treasurer, County Board of Education, Sheriff or either
or any of them, in matters pertaining to their office. He
shall have power to issue process compelling such witness
to attend before him, which shall be directed to the Sheriff
Frederick County, and it shall be the duty of said Sheriff
to serve such process promptly; and any Commissioner who
shall refuse to allow an examination of all the books and
accounts of their office, and any witness duly served with
process, as aforesaid, who shall refuse to answer upon oath
touching the conduct or acts of said County Commissioners,
County Treasurer, County Board of Education or Sheriff,
or as to the books, accounts and papers of said office or
offices, shall on indictment and conviction thereof be fined
not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred
dollars, in the discretion of the Court; provided, how-
ever, that the examination of all such books, accounts and
papers shall be made in the office of the said County Com-
missioners, County Treasurer, County Board of Education
and Sheriff, respectively.

28. The said County Commissioners are hereby directed
and authorized in their levy for taxes made in 1940 to
include therein a sum not to exceed three thousand dollars,
to be used, or so much thereof as may foe necessary, to pay
for the first examination, audit and reports herein pro-
vided for and annually thereafter in the levies made for
taxes they are hereby directed to include a sum not to
exceed one thousand dollars, to be used, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, to pay for subsequent examinations,
audits, accounts and reports herein provided for.

The County Commissioners shall publish at least two
thousand copies of the annual report of the Auditor and
shall distribute by mail not less than one thousand copies
to representative citizens of the County and place the re-
maining copies of the report in their office to be distributed
in such manner as they may adopt and shall levy sufficient
taxes to pay for the cost of same.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety,
and being passed upon a yea and nay vote, supported by
three-fifths of all of the members elected to each of the
two Houses of the General Assembly, the same shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 10, 1939.