ment to State Board of Education; may adjust claims of
delinquent officers; may compromise the same; employ-
attorneys and pay them for collecting the same; shall
keep a statement of such compromises; issue dredging
licenses; have numbers painted corresponding to such
licenses; shall count and cancel bonds and certificates of
the sinking fund, and file a statement in his office -, he
may order suit in delinquent collectors' bonds; he shall
make allowance to County Commissioners for insolvencies
and renewals; must transmit to corporate officers the
valuation of stock placed on them by State Tax Commis-
sioner; lie may examine under oath railroad officials
touching gross receipts. (Articles 19, 69, 77, 81, 85, 72
and 95, of the Code. Article II, section 18,. Article II.
sections I and 2, of Constitution.)

Comptroller is empowered to adjust and settle claims
of the State against collectors, sheriffs, clerks of Courts
and Registers of Wills, and other collectors of public
monies, and against their securities, corporations or indi-
viduals that have accrued prior to and including the year
1894: provided the Governor and Treasurer, in writing,
approve the settlement. (Sec. I, ch. 77, Acts of 1896.)

Comptroller is to prepare blank licenses for parties
engaged in the use of hand nets, fykes, haul-seines and
other contrivances to catch fish below Pool's Island. (Act
of 1896, chapter 441, sections 90 and 93.)

Constables.— Appointed by County Commissioners:
bond, $2,000 ', paid by fees : serve process, make execution,
levy distress, make sales; must be sworn at every grand
jury; visit and report all suspected gambling houses:
shall arrest parties vending without a license; inform on
all non-residents retailing spirituous liquors : on complaint
inspect retailers' measures ; may kill sheep-killing dogs ;
shall arrest persons catching terrapins contrary to law;
shall enumerate the dogs; collect tax on them; shall
inform the justices of the birth of illegitimate children.
(Articles 20, 36, 53, 81, 86, 92, 99 of the Code.) The bond
of constables must be approved by the County Commis-
sioners in the counties and recorded in the office of the
clerk of the Circuit Court; in the city of Baltimore, ap-
proved by the judge of the Superior Court and recorded
in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court. (Article
20, section 3 of Code.)

Coroners.--Justices of the peace now act as coroners in