J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       1169

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 162 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Dorchester
County (1961 Edition, being Article 10 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland), title "Dorchester County," subtitle "County
Commissioners and Treasurer," subheading "Board of Estimates,"
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

162.

The County Commissioners of Dorchester County shall, at the
end of each fiscal year, or oftener if it be deemed necessary, have
an audit made of the accounts of the Treasurer and Collector for
Dorchester County. Said audit shall show how much was appro-
priated under each item of the budget and also how much was
expended under each item of said budget, and it shall show especially
if any item of said budget has been exceeded and how much. A
copy of the said audit shall be delivered by the Auditor to the Clerk
of the Circuit Court for Dorchester County, and the judge of the
Circuit Court who delivers the charge to the grand jury, at the
October session thereof, in each year, shall call the attention of the
grand jury to the said report and shall state to the grand jury any
item of said budget that may be overdrawn and how much said
item has been overdrawn. The court shall also call the attention of
the grand jury to the penalty for expending money on any item
of said budget in excess of the amount levied for and stated in said
budget. [An itemized statement] A summary of all expenditures
of the County Commissioners for Dorchester County shall be pub-
lished every three months, showing the expenditures for the pre-
ceding three months, in such newspaper or newspapers having gen-
eral circulation in Dorchester County and the City of Cambridge,
as said Commissioners shall determine. The said itemized state-

ment shall show the amount, to whom paid and for what purpose

each expenditure was made.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1966.

Approved May 6, 1966.

CHAPTER 652
(House Bill 585)

AN ACT to authorize the creation of a State Debt in the aggregate
amount of Three Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($3,-
500,000), the proceeds thereof to be used exclusively for purpose
of supplementing grants made to the State Department of Health
for public and other non-profit nursing homes in this State by the
Federal Government under the provisions of "Subchapter IV—
Construction of Hospitals and Other Facilities," USCA, Title 42,
Section 291 et seq., as amended from time to time, by granting
financial allotments for the construction and equipping of such
nursing homes, and providing generally for the issue and sale of
Certificates of Indebtedness evidencing such loan.