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count of the sinking fund. Every bond, certificate 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 re-
place another, shall be issued until the old one shall be
delivered to the treasurer, and authority executed in due
form for the transfer of the same shall be filed in his
office, and the transfer accordingly made on the books
thereof, and the certificate or other evidence cancelled;
but the Legislature may make provisions for the loss of
certificates or other evidences of debt, and may prescribe
by law the manner in which the treasurer shall receive
and keep the money of the State.
Sec. 4. The treasurer shall render his accounts quar-
terly to the comptroller, and on the third day of each
regular session of 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 comptroller. He shall, at all times, sub-
mit to the comptroller the inspection of the money in his
hands, and perform all other duties that shall be pre-
scribed by law.
Sec. 5. The comptroller shall qualify and enter on the
duties of his office on the second Monday of January next
succeeding the time of his election; ah3 the treasurer
within one month after his appointment by the Legis-
lature.
Mr. Stoddert then withdrew his motion.
On motion of Mr. Watkins, of Montgomery, it was
Ordered, That the committee on the judiciary be in-
structed to inquire into the expediency of inserting into
the constitution a provision requiring the judges of the
several judicial districts of the State to report to the
Legislature at its respective regular sessions such defects
in the laws of the State as they may think proper to be
remedied by legislation, with such amendments as they
may think proper to improve the same or the adminis-
tration of them.
On motion of Mr. Nelson it was
Ordered, That the committee on the legislative depart-
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