474 OFFICERS. [ART. 69.

the provisions of this section shall be a misdemeanor in office,
and on conviction thereof he shall be removed.

6. The Comptroller shall furnish each officer of the State
whose accounts are in arrears, at least sixty days prior to a
general election, a full statement of his accounts, and in default
of his accounting for such deficiencies within thirty days, then it
shall be the duty of the Comptroller to have published weekly
for one month in one or more newspapers in the several counties
of this State and the city of Baltimore, the names and titles of
said officers, with the amount of such deficiencies.

7. The committees on elections of the two houses of the Gene-
ral Assembly shall, at every session thereof, ascertain from an
examination of the books of the Treasury whether any member
elect of their respective houses is in default to the treasury, and
if so, report the same to their respective houses.

8. The writ of quo warranto shall be deemed and taken as
sufficient for the institution, prosecution and decision of the
inquiry herein authorized and commanded.

9. Nothing contained in this article shall invalidate any act
done by any officer within the scope of his authority, so long as
his commission shall be unannulled as herein provided.

10. No postmaster or his deputies, nor marshal or his deputies,
shall hold any office under the Government of this State, or exer-
cise any of the functions of any officer, under the penalty of fifty
dollars for every offence, to be recovered by indictment in the
Circuit Court for the county where the offence may be com-
mitted, or in the Criminal Court of Baltimore if committed in
said city.

11. No sheriff, constable or collector of taxes shall, while he
continues in office, purchase any debt or claim held by or due
from any person residing in the county or city wherein he is
sheriff, constable or collector of taxes, under the penalty of fifty
dollars for each offence.