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said bonds or certificates, with the date of said cancellation, in red
ink, and signing the name of the said treasurer thereto, also in red
ink; and said bonds or certificates shall then be held by the treas-
urer to the credit of the sinking fund, and the interest thereon
shall accrue to said fund until such time as the general assembly
may dispose of the said bonds or certificates.

1872, ch. 276, sec 6.

34. The comptroller is hereby directed to draw his warrant on
the treasurer for the payment of the bonds or certificates so taken.
up or purchased.

1878, ch 91, sec. 1.

35. In making the apportionments required by article 76, title,
Public Education, it shall be the duty of the comptroller to equal-
ize, as far as may be possible, the sums to be apportioned, so as to
apportion and distribute the same amount, as far as may be prac-
ticable, on the fifteenth day of June, the first day of October, the
first day of January, and the fifteenth day of May, in each year.

Ibid, sec, 2.

36. Until otherwise expressly directed by law, the comptroller
shall charge to said fund and pay therefrom the annual appropri-
ations that have been or may hereafter continue to be made for
the education of colored children, and also with like appropria-
tions for the support of the State normal school, for the colored
normal school, and the expenses of the State board of education.

1884, ch. 116, sec 1. 1888, ch. 537.

37. The comptroller is authorized and empowered to adjust
and settle the claims of the State against all collectors, sheriffs,
clerks of courts and registers of wills, and other collectors or
receivers of public moneys, and their securities, and against cor-
porations and individuals who may be indebted to the State, in
all cases where said claims accrued prior to and including the
year 1886, and whether said claims be in the form of judgments
or otherwise; and for the purpose of closing all such cases, the
comptroller is fully authorized to compromise the same by abating
the interest that has accrued, or any portion thereof, or any part