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report estimates of the revenue and expenditure of the State;
superintend and enforce the collection of all taxes and revenue,
adjust, settle and preserve all public accounts; decide on the
forms of keeping and stating accounts; grant, under regula-
tions prescribed by law, all warrants for moneys to be paid
out of the Treasury, in pursuance of appropriations by law;
prescribe the formalities of the transfer of stock or other evi-
dences of State debt, and countersign the same, without which
such evidences shall not be valid; he shall make full reports
of all his proceedings, and of the state of the Treasury De-
partment within ten days after the commencement of each
session of the Legislature, and perform such other duties as
shall 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 not otherwise; he shall take receipts for all
moneys paid by him, and all receipts for moneys received by
him shall be endorsed upon warrants signed by the Comp-
troller, without which warrant, so signed, no acknowledg-
ment of money received into the Treasury shall be valid; and
upon warrants issued by the Comptroller he shall make ar-
rangements for the payment of the interest of the public debt,
and for the purchase thereof, on account 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 in-
tended to replace 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 Legis-
lature may make provision for the loss of certificates or other
evidence of the debt.
Sec. 4. The Treasurer shall render his accounts quarterly
to the Comptroller; and on the third day of each 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 submit to the Comptroller the inspection of
the moneys in his hands, and perform all other duties that
shall be prescribed by law.
PETER NEGLEY,
D. J. MARKEY,
JAMES U. DENNIS,
Jos. M. CUSHING.
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