HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1243

secretary and the members of the said board signing the
said schedule shall make affidavit as to its correctness and
that it contains all of the sources of revenue of the county,
upon which the said board shall file the said schedule with
the county treasurer, after which the said Board of Esti-
mates shall be an affirmative vote of a majority of all the
members thereof, make out a list of moneys, expenditures,
disbursements, or estimates showing for what particular
purpose all money is to be appropriated by the County
Commissioners for the next ensuing fiscal year, each esti-
mate shall be in full detail and to plainly show for what
purpose and in what amount the money so appropriated is
to be expended, and the said Board of Estimates or a ma-
jority of the members thereof shall sign the said list of
estimates and their signatures thereto be attested by their
secretary; and the said board or a majority of the mem-
bers thereof shall certify that each and every estimate in
said list is in their opinion, a necessary and proper esti-
mate, after which they shall file the said list of estimates
with the county treasurer, and both the schedule of re-
sources and also the said list of estimates shall be pub-
lished for at least three weeks, in not less than two news-
papers of general circulation, published in Dorchester
County.

150. It shall be the duty of the said Board of Estimates
and they shall require from each board and each and every
official through whom and under whom any appropriation
of money to be made by the County Commissioners is to be
expended, an estimate, for such appropriation to be made
and certified to by such board of a majority of the mem-
bers thereof or official, chief or head of any department,
showing how much money will be required for each par-
ticular estimate of purpose for which the money is to be
spent, and showing the same in full detail for the ensuing
fiscal year, and it shall be the duty of any such board or
official to furnish the said estimate to the Board of Esti-
mates not later than the 15th day of December,
of each and every year beginning with Decem-
ber, 1943, and the said Board of Estimates shall have full
power to require of any board or official under whose juris-
diction or superintendence or whose official duties incur the
expenditure of the county money, the estimate herein men-
tioned, and it shall be the duty of any such board or offi-
cial to render the same when required.

151. The said Board of County Commissioners shall
on or before the 1st day of January, as aforesaid, levy
upon all of the taxable property of Dorchester County,