3364

LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 784

as follows:

Article 8

1-29.

The County Commissioners of Cecil County [are hereby
required], in addition to the annual statement of county
expenditures required to be made out and published by
law, [to make out, at the end of each month, a complete,
perfect and detailed statement of all claims filed with
said board of county commissioners for expenses incurred
during said month or previous thereto, and not heretofore
filed, specifying therein each particular item of
expenses, and for what and to whom payable, and to cause
the same to be published in at least two newspapers
published in Cecil County at least ten days before
passing upon or paying said claims, in order that any
taxpayer of said county, who may desire to do so may have
an opportunity to object or protest against the payment
of any of such claim or claims before the same are paid.]
[[THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS]] SHALL PUBLISH ALL RECORDS OF
COUNTY EXPENSES IN THEIR MINUTES, WHICH SHALL BE MADE
AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION [[AT LEAST TEN DAYS
BEFORE ANY BILLS ARE PAID. ALL BILLS SHALL BE AVAILABLE
BY THE SAME TIME FOR INSPECTION IN THE OFFICE OF THE
TREASURER OF CECIL COUNTY.]]. ALL BILLS SHALL BE
PRESENTED TEN DAYS BEFORE PAYMENT AND MADE AVAILABLE FOR
INSPECTION IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Any taxpayer desiring to object to the payment of any
[such] claim or claims must file a protest in writing
with the [said] board of county commissioners before the
expiration of said ten days, specifying the claim or
claims objected to, together with the reason for [said]
THE objection, and upon the filing of [said] THE
objection, it shall be the duty of [said] THE board of
county commissioners to set [the same] IT down for
hearing and to notify all the parties interested
[therein] of the time and place where [the same] IT shall
be heard, before [said] THE claims shall be acted upon or
passed and approved, and if at [such] THE hearing it
shall, in the judgment of [said] THE board, be made to
appear that any claim or claims objected to, or any part
thereof is not correct or just and bona fide, it shall be
the duty of [said] THE board to reject and refuse to pay
[the same], IT or any part thereof, [so] found to be
incorrect.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved May 15, 1975.