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report estimates of the revenue and expenditures of the State,
superintend and enforce the prompt collection of all taxes and
revenue, adjust and settle on terms prescribed by law with
delinquent collectors and receivers of taxes and State revenue
and preserve all public accounts, decide on the forms of keep-
ing and stating accounts, grant under regulations prescribed
by law all warrants for money to be paid out of the Treasury
in pursuance of appropriations by law, and countersign all
checks drawn by the Treasurer upon any bank or banks in
which the moneys of the State may from time to time be de-
posited, prescribe the formalities of the transfer of stock or
other evidence of the State debt, and countersign 'the same,
without which such evidences shall not be valid, he shall
make full reports of all his proceedings and the state of the
Treasury Department within ten days after the commence-
ment of each session of the Legislature and perform such other
duties as stall be prescribed by law.
Sec. 3. The Treasurer shall receive and keep the moneys
of the State and disburse the same upon, warrants drawn by
the Comptroller, and on checks countersigned by him and not
otherwise, he shall take receipts for all moneys paid by him,
and receipts for moneys received by him shall be endorsed
upon warrants signed by the Comptroller, without which
warrants so signed no acknowledgment of money received
into the Treasury shall be valid, and upon warrants issued
by the Comptroller he shall make arrangements for the pay-
ment of the interest of the public debt and for the purchase
thereof on account of the sinking fund. Dvery bond, certifi-
cate or other evidence of the debt of the State shall be signed
by the Treasurer and countersigned by the Comptroller, and
no new certificate or other evidence intended to replace anoth-
er shall be issued until the old one shall be delivered to the
Treasurer, and authority executed in due form for the trans-
fer of the same shall be filed in his office and the transfer ac-
cordingly made on the books thereof and the certificate or
other evidence cancelled, but the Legislature may make pro-
visions for the loss of certificates or other evidences of the
debt, and may prescribe by law the manner in which the
Treaurer shall receive and keep the moneys, of the State.
Sec. 4. The Treasurer shall render his accounts quarterly
to the Comptroller, and on the third day of each regular ses-
sion cf the Legislature he shall submit to the Senate and
House of Delegates fair and accurate copies of all accounts by
him from time to time rendered and settled with the Comptro-
ler. He shall at all times submit to the Comptroller the in-
spection of the money in his hands, and perform all other
duties that shall be prescribed by law.
Sec. 5. The Comptroller shall qualify and enter on the
duties of his office on the second Monday of January next
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