1622 LAWS OF MARYLAND, [CH. 949

ments and other County officials shall keep their offices open
for public business as a minimum from 9 A. M. to 4. 30 P. M.
every day except Sundays, legal holidays and Saturday after-
noons. When there is an accumulation of business in any office,
; such office shall be kept open after 4. 30 P. M. as may be
required by the County Supervisor.

268E. The following officials, namely, County Comptroller
and Accountant, Counsel and Assistant Counsel to the County
Commissioners, County Purchasing Agent, County Civil Serv-
ice Commissioner, Chief of Police, County Engineer, Assistant
County Engineers, the County Road Supervisors, the Clerk and
Assistant Clerk to the County Commissioners at Rockville and
the Clerk at the Bethesda County Building and the Clerk at the
Silver Spring County Building, appointed by the County Com-
missioners, shall be designated as policy-determining or public
relations officials of the County, but with the exception of the
Counsel and Assistant Counsel to the County Commissioners,
shall, in the discharge of their duties, first be responsible di-
rectly to the County Supervisor and then to the County Com-
missioners. All matters of daily routine are to be cleared and
determined to the fullest extent possible between the County
Supervisor and the policy-determining or public relations
County officials and employees. Each such policy-determining
or public relations official or employee shall have the right, on
simultaneous notice to the County Supervisor, to take any
subject matter directly to the County Commissioners.

268F. The County Supervisor shall supervise and direct the
work of the County Purchasing Agent, and shall supervise
the regular routine work of all other County offices and de-
partments, including the County police, engineering and road
departments, and the employees in the offices of the County
Treasurer, Supervisors of Elections and Board of Assessment.
It shall be the duty of said Supervisor to familiarize himself
with the daily routine operations of the offices and field forces
of the County Board of Welfare and Health Departments and
to supervise the administration and procedure of these
agencies, including the expenditures of County funds provided
by the County Commissioners for those departments.

268G. The County Supervisor, in addition to his other duties
and functions, shall also prepare, in cooperation with the
County Comptroller and Accountant, an annual expense budget
showing in detail as well as in summary form, the amounts
recommended for each office or department or agency of the
County. He shall also submit an annual statement or budget
showing a summary of all capital projects planned for the
succeeding five years and an itemized statement or report