140                              Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 147

ministrative director who shall also be Clerk to said County Commis-
sioners, to confer upon him such duties and responsibilities as said
Commissioners, from time to time, shall deem advisable, to make him
responsible and accountable to said Commissioners for the proper
performance of his duties and responsibilities, and to fix from time
to time, regulate the salary or compensation of such employee or
officer, and he shall receive such salary and the salary shall be pay-
able in such manner as the County Commissioners shall determine.

_m (b) In addition to the duties and responsibilities conferred upon
him by said Commissioners, he shall serve as Secretary to any com-
mission or commissions appointed by said County Commissioners
either by law or otherwise if said County Commissioners in the
appointment of said commission or commissions shall, by resolution,
so designate said [Clerk] administrative director 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 [Secre-
tary and Clerk] administrative director to said County Commis-
sioners.

(c)   He shall make full, complete and accurate minutes of all trans-
actions 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 opt 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.].

(d)   He shall keep all necessary, suitable and appropriate books of
accounts and therein enter in a clear, accurate 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 Treas-
urer 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 finan-
cial 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 sev-
eral 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