regular election for inembers of the general
assembly. He shall hold his office for two
years, commencing on the second Wednesday
in January next ensuing his election, and
shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five
hundred dollars; but shall not be allowed,
nor shall he receive any fees, commissions or
perquisites of any kind, in addition thereto,
for the performance of any official duty or
service. He shall keep his office at the seat of
government, and shall take such oath, and
enter into such bond, for the faithful per-
formance of his duty, as are now or may here-
after be prescribed by law. A vacancy in the
office of comptroller, shall be filled by the
governor for the residue of the term. The
first election for comptroller under this con-
stitution. shall be held on the Tuesday next
after the first Monday in the month of No-
vember, in the year eighteen hundred and
sixty-four, but the comptroller then elected
shall not enter upon the discharge of the duties
of his office, until the expiration of the term
of the present incumbent, unless the said office
shall sooner become vacant. *
Sec. 3. The comptroller shall have the
general superintendence of the fiscal affairs of
the State; he shall digest and prepare plans
for the improvement and management of the
revenue, and for the support of the public
credit; prepare and report estimates of the
revenue and expenditure of the State; super-
intend and enforce the collection of all taxes
and revenue; adjust, settle and preserve all
public accounts; decide on the forms of keep-
ing and slating accounts; grant, under regu-
lations prescribed by law, all warrants for
moneys to be paid out of the treasury, in pur-
suance of appropriations by law; prescribe
the formalities of the transfer of stork or oth-
er evidences of the State debt, and counter-
sign 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 department within ten days after the
commencement of each session of the general
assembly, and perform such other duties as
are now or may hereafter be prescribed by
law.
See. 4. The treasurer shall be elected on
joint ballot by the two houses of the general
assembly at each regular session thereof.—
He shall hold his office for two years, and
shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five
hundred dollars, but shall not be allowed,
nor shall he receive any fees, commissions, or
perquisites of any kind in addition thereto
for the performance of any official duty or
service. He shall keep his office at the seat
of government, and shall take such oath and
enter into such bond for the faithful discharge
of his duty as are now or may hereafter be
prescribed by law. A vacancy in the office of
treasurer shall be filled by the governor for
the residue of the term. The general assem-
bly at its first session after the adoption of |
this constitution shall elect a treasurer, but
the treasurer then elected, shall not enter
upon the discharge of the duties of his office
until the expiration of the term of the pres-
ent incumbent, unless the said office shall
sooner become vacant.
Sec. 5. The treasurer shall receive and
keep the moneys of the State, and disburse
the same upon warrants drawn by the comp-
troller and not otherwise; he shall take re-
ceipts for all moneys paid by him, and all re-
ceipts for moneys received by him shall be
indorsed upon warrants signed by the comp-
troller, without which warrant, so signed, no
acknowledgment 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 intended to
replace another 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 accordingly made on the books
thereof, and the certificate or other evidence
cancelled; but the general assembly may
make provision for the loss of certificates or
other evidence of the debt,
Sec, 6. The treasurer shall render his ac-
counts quarterly to the comptroller, and on
the third day of each regular session of the
general assembly 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 comp-
troller. He shall at all times submit to the
comptroller the inspection of the moneys in
his hands, and perform all other duties that
are now or may hereafter be prescribed by
law.
ARTICLE VII.
SUNDRY OFFICERS.
Section 1. The governor, the comptroller
of the treasury and the treasurer shall con-
stitute the board of public works in this State;
they shall keep a journal of their proceedings,
and shall hold regular sessions in the city of
Annapolis, on the first Wednesday in Janu-
ary, April, July and October in each year,
and oftener if necessary, at which sessions
they shall bear and determine such matters
as affect the public works of the State, and as
the general assembly may confer upon them
the power to decide.
Sec. 2. They shall exercise a diligent and
faithful supervision of all public works in
which the State may he interested as stock-
holder or creditor, and shall appoint the di-
rectors in every railroad or canal company
in which the State has the legal power to ap. |
