be for four years, and until their successors shall qualify;
and neither of the said officers shall be allowed, or receive
any fees, commissions or perquisites of any kind in addition
to his salary for the performance of any duty or services
whatsoever. In case of a vacancy in either of the offices by
death or otherwise, the Governor, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, shall fill such vacancy by appoint-
ment, to continue until another election or a choice by the
Legislature, as the case may be, and until the qualification
of the successor. The Comptroller and the Treasurer shall
keep their offices at the seat of government, and shall take
such oath, and enter into such bonds for the faithful dis-
charge of their duties as are now, or may hereafter be pre-
scribed by law.*

SEC. 2. The Comptroller shall have the general superin-
tendence 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 expenditures of the
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.

SEC. 3. The Treasurer shall receive the moneys of the
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 deposit), 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-

"Thus amended by the Act of 1922, Chapter 141, and adopted by the
people November, 1922.