Theodore R. McKeldin, Governor                       67

monthly by Wicomico County] and he shall receive such salary and
the salary shall be payable in such manner as the County Commis-
sioners shall determine. In addition to the duties and responsibilities
conferred upon him by said Commissioners, he shall serve as Secre-
tary to any commission or commissions appointed by said County
Commissioners either by law or otherwise if said County Commis-
sioners in the appointment of said commission or commissions shall,
by resolution, so designate said Clerk as the Secretary thereof; he
shall perform all duties and services now required by law or which
may hereafter be required by law of him as the Secretary and Clerk
to said County Commissioners. He shall make full, complete and
accurate minutes of all transactions and proceedings of the Board
of County Commissioners and of all orders passed by said board,
and record the same in suitable and durably bound volumes with
index to facilitate reference to all such transactions, proceedings and
orders; he shall endorse, file, number and index all papers presented
to the said board and acted upon by the same, and so arrange, keep
and preserve them that by reference to such index and number such
papers may at any time and all times be readily found; he shall each
year immediately upon and after the annual assessment and levy
make out the assessment and levy book for each district in the
County, which shall set forth the name of each taxpayer in said
district and alphabetically for each district the aggregate amount of
property, both real and personal assessed to each person or persons,
or corporation, for each district, and the amount of State and County
taxes due by each, together with the rate of State and County tax
opposite each taxpayer's name. He shall keep all necessary, suitable
and appropriate books of accounts and therein enter in a clear, accu-
rate and businesslike manner all the financial transactions of the
County, and particularly showing from day to day, and at all times
the amount of County moneys, securities and property in the hands
of the County Treasurer or any other fiduciary officer of the County,
the amount of taxes placed in the hands of the Treasurer and not
accounted for by him; the amount of each and every appropriation,
and of each and every warrant drawn by the Board thereon, with
the name of the person to whom such warrant was drawn, the
number, date and amount thereof, and also of its payment by the
treasurer or any other financial agent of the County on whom drawn,
as soon as such payment shall have been reported unto the Board,
and he shall in all respects so keep such books that on any day the
financial condition of the County and the status of any appropriation
may be exactly and truly known immediately upon examination of
said books and of the several accounts therein; he shall also keep a
warrant book of Wicomico County, from which he shall make out
every warrant which shall authorize the Treasurer of the County or
any other financial agent of the County to pay out to any person or
corporation, whatsoever, any sum of money, which warrant book,
besides the warrant to be removed therefrom after execution thereof
by the President of the Board of County Commissioners, and by such
officer as Clerk of the County Commissioners, shall contain a corre-
sponding duplicate stub, in which at the time of the filling up of said
warrant, and before its removal from the book, he shall make full
entry of the number, date and the amount of such warrant, the
name of the person to whom issued, and upon whom drawn, the
appropriation against which drawn, and reference to the page of the
journal of the Board, wherein is the entry of order for such war-
rant; and no warrant shall at any time be issued, except after all