preserve all public accounts; decide on the forms of keeping and stat
ing accounts; grant, under regulations, prescribed by law, all warrants
for money to be paid out of the Treasury, in pursuance of appropria-
tions 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 department, within ten days after the commencement
of each session; and perform such other duties as shall be prescribed
by law.

An Act of the General Assembly of 1929 providing for a change
in the Constitution which would permit the Comptroller to appoint
deputies with authority to sign warrants and countersign checks was
approved at the November, 1930, election This authority makes pos-
sible the direct payment of all obligations of the State by the State
Treasury Department and gives the central accounting office of the
State an opportunity to pass upon all vouchers before payment. It had
not been possible to provide for direct payment of all vouchers because
of the impossibility of one man, the Comptroller, being able to sign all
the warrants and checks which would be necessary if this plan were
put into effect. A similar provision was approved for the State Treas-
urer's Office so that the State Treasurer will be authorized to appoint
a deputy, or deputies, to sign checks in payment of State obligations.

STATE AUDITOR

Union Trust Building, Baltimore

(Terms Expire 1935.)

Name. Postoffice.
State Auditor:

Edmund R. Stewart, C. P. A. Baltimore
Deputy State Auditor:

Daniel L. Clayland, 3rd, C. P. A. Baltimore
Assistants'

Thomas A. Sweeney Baltimore
Howard B. Matthews . Baltimore
Charles S. Shaffer Baltimore
Thomas J. Dennis . ... Baltimore
J. A. Dougherty . . . Baltimore
J. W. Sindall Baltimore
Arthur E. Depew ... Dundalk
William N. Bowen . Pikesville
Fuller L. Van Horn . . . Baltimore
Richard L. Hardisty Baltimore
Milton C. Greer, Jr. Baltimore

Secretary-Stenographer:
Kathleen Collins Baltimore

The State Auditor's Department was reorganized by the Acts of 1929,
Chapter 226 (Annotated Code, Article 19, Sections 45 to 52, inclusive).

The State Auditor is appointed, by the Governor for term of office
beginning on the first Monday in May next ensuing his appointment
and continuing for four years and until his successor shall be appointed
and qualified, but the initial term of the State Auditor, under this law,
began on the first day of June, 1929, and continues until the first
Monday in May, 1931, and until his successor shall be appointed and
qualified. He shall appoint, with the approval of the Governor, a
Deputy State Auditor who shall serve at the pleasure of the State
Auditor. Both the State Auditor and the Deputy State Auditor shall

* See the Conservation Department, Page 53, for full account of duties and
term of office.