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accounts of the annual revenues and expenditures of every class
and description, under the proper heads thereof, according to
such forms as under the provisions of the Constitution he may
prescribe.

12. He shall keep fair and accurate records of all public ac-
counts adjusted by him, or returnable t6 or kept in his office.

13. He shall keep safely all vouchers and copies of letters writ-
ten by or to him in the performance of his official duties, and a
record of his official proceedings, and the books and papers of
his office shall at all times be subject to the inspection of the
Governor and the members of the Legislature.

14. He shall obtain from all public officers, and from all bodies
politic and corporate who have heretofore made their report and
returns to the Governor or Treasurer, full reports from time to
time, concerning the revenues or taxes of the State, and all such
papers or copies of papers pertaining to the revenue or taxes
thereof, which he may deem necessary.

15. He shall keep an account between the State and the Trea-
surer, who shall be charged therein with the balance in the
treasury at the time said account is commenced, and all moneys
received by him, and shall be credited with all warrants drawn
on and paid by him.

16. He shall, at least once in every month, carefully examine
the accounts of debts and credits kept in the books of the Trea-
surer, and shall procure from the bank in which the public funds
may be deposited, monthly statements of all moneys deposited
by, or drawn out by the Treasurer; which statements the bank
is hereby required to furnish.

17. Every warrant drawn by the Comptroller on the Treasurer
for the disbursement of money, to be valid, shall express upon its
face the purpose for which it is drawn, and the act of the General
Assembly by which the appropriation is made, and the Comp-
troller shall keep an abstract of every warrant so drawn by him,
and also of every warrant drawn by him in favor of the Treasurer
for the payment of money into the treasury for the use of the
State, and a duplicate of each warrant drawn for the receipt of
money into the treasury shall be kept and preserved by the
Treasurer as his voucher for the receipt thereof.