CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION STUDY DOCUMENTS
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 Assembly 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 present
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 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 Comptroller,
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 arrangements for the pay-
ment of the interest of the public debt,
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and for the purchase thereof, on account
of the sinking fund. Every bond certifi-
cate 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 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 Gen-
eral Assembly may make provision for
the loss of certificates or other evidence
of the debt.
Sec. 6. The Treasurer shall render
his accounts quarterly to the Comp-
troller, 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 here-
after be prescribed by law.
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ARTICLE VII.
SUNDRY OFFICERS.
Section 1. The Governor, the Comp-
troller of the Treasury and the Treasurer
shall constitute 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
January, April, July and October in each
year, and oftener if necessary, at which
sessions they shall hear and determine
such matters as affect the Public Works
of the State, and as the General Assem-
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bly 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 be
interested as stockholder or creditor, and
shall appoint the Directors in every Rail
Road or Canal Company in which the
State has the legal power to appoint
Directors, which said Directors shall
represent the State in all meetings of
the stockholders of every Rail Road
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