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 regula-
tions 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 formalities of the
transfer of stock, or other evidence of the State debt, and
countersign the same, without which such evidence shall not
be valid; he shall make to the General Assembly full reports
of all his proceedings, and of the state of the Treasury De-
partment within ten days after the commencement of each
session; and perform such other duties as shall be prescribed
by law.
Billingsley vs. 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, sat-
isfactory to the Governor, for the safekeeping and forthcom-
ing, 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 counter-
signed by him, and not otherwise; he shall take receipts for
all moneys paid by him; and receipts for moneys received by
him shall be endorsed upon warrants signed by the Comp-
troller, without which warrants, 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 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 evi-
dences of the debt; and may prescribe, by law, the manner
in which the Treasurer shall receive and keep the moneys of
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