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hire due to any laborer or employe by any employer or corporation shall
always be exempt from attachment by any process whatever, provided
such exemption shall not exceed one hundred dollars.*

AUDITOR.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 28. 1884, ch. 496.

9. The judges of the first judicial circuit, in which is embraced Dor-
chester County, and in the event of any change in said circuit, the judge
or judges presiding over the circuit court for said county are authorized
and directed to appoint a special auditor for the circuit court for said
county, who shall be an expert bookkeeper, whose duties shall be as speci-
fied in the two succeeding sections; such appointment shall be made
biennially at the April term of said court, accounting from the year
eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and the auditor so appointed shall hold
over until his successor be duly appointed and qualified; and in event of
the death, resignation, removal from the county, or other disqualification
of any auditor so appointed and qualified, it shall be the duty of said
judges to supply the vacancy so caused, at the next ensuing term of their
said court, by the appointment of a new auditor for the unexpired term
of his predecessor.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 29. 1884, ch. 496.

10. The auditor when appointed as aforesaid shall qualify by taking
an oath before the clerk of said court that he will obey the Constitution
of the United States and of the State of Maryland, and the laws passed
in pursuance thereof, and will execute the duties attached to his said
office to the best of his ability, fairly and without favor, partiality or
prejudice; it shall be the duty of said auditor once in each year, not later
if practicable than April the first, to make a thorough examination of the
books of the County Commissioners of Dorchester County and their treas-
urer and clerks, their and his receipts, accounts, disbursements and vouch-
ers, and make a full report, of the results of such examination to the said
judges one month before the April term of court of each year, setting
forth how much of the preceding levies have been disbursed, with the
vouchers therefor, how much has remained uncollected, and how much
is in cash in the hands of the treasurer; also the precise status of the
sinking fund; how much has been appropriated to the purchase and can-
cellation of county bonds; how much has been invested in mortgages,
and how much remains uninvested in the hands of the treasurer of the
said Board of County Commissioners. He shall make a full and accu-
rate examination of the finances of said county since the last previous
audit, and report the same as he finds them to said court as aforesaid;
and shall also publish a copy of his report in one or more newspapers
published in said county, or by handbills, as the County Commissioners
may direct, for the information and satisfaction of the people.

*Sec 2, ch. 440, 1927, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.