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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 127

CHAPTER 127

(House Bill 456)

AN ACT concerning

Dorchester County — Accounts Audit

FOR the purpose of changing the time when the audit of the
accounts of the Treasurer and Collector for Dorchester
County shall be presented to the Grand Jury.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

The Public Local Laws of Dorchester County
Section 6-14

Article 10 — Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1974 Edition, as amended)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as
follows:

Article 10 — Dorchester County

6-14.

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 appropriated under each item of the
budget and also how much was expended under each item of
said budget, and it shall show especially if ay 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] MARCH 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. A summary of all expenditures of the County
Commissioners for Dorchester County shall be published every
three months, showing the expenditures for the preceding
three months, in such newspaper or newspapers having general
circulation in Dorchester County and the City of Cambridge,
as said Commissioners shall determine.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act