ART. VI.] CONSTITUTION. 65
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; preserve all public accounts; decide on
the forms of keeping and stating accounts; grant, under reg-
ulations 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 deposited; prescribe the formali-
ties of the transfer of stock, or other evidence of the State
debt, and countersign the same, without which such evi-
dence shall not be valid; he shall make to the General As-
sembly full reports of all his proceedings, and of the state
of the Treasury .Department within ten days after the com-
mencement of each session; and perform such other duties
as shall be prescribed by law.
Billingsley v. State, 14 Md., 369.
SEC. 3. The Treasurer shall receive the moneys of the |
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State, and, until otherwise prescribed by law, deposit them,
as soon as received, to the credit of the State, in such bank
or banks as he may, from time to time, with the approval of
the Governor, select, the said bank or banks giving security,
satisfactory to the Governor, for the safekeeping and forth-
coming, when required, of said deposits), and shall disburse
the same for the purposes of the State, according to law,
upon warrants drawn by the Comptroller, and on checks
countersigned by him, and not otherwise; he shall take re-
ceipts 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 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 certifi-
cate 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 transfer of the
same 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 the debt; and may
prescribe, by law, the manner in which the Treasurer shall
receive And keep the moneys of the State. |
Treasurer's
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