salary for the performance of any duty or services whatsoever.
In case of a vacancy in either of the offices by death of otherwise,
the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,
shall fill such vacancy by appointment, to continue until an-
other 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 govern-
ment, and shall take such oath, and enter into such bonds for
the faithful discharge of their duties as are now, or may here-
after be prescribed 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; and decide on the
forms of keeping and stating accounts. He, or such of his
deputies as may be authorized to do so by the Legislature, shall
grant, under regulations prescribed by Law, all warrants for
money to be paid out of the Treasury, in pursuance of appro-
priations 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. He shall 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 As-
sembly full reports of alibis 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 pre-
scribed 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,
sleet (the said bank or banks giving security, satisfactory to
the Governor, for the safekeeping and forthcoming, when re-
quired of said deposit), and he or such of his deputies as may be
authorized to do so by the Legislature shall disburse the same
for the purposes of the State according to law, upon warrants
drawn by the Comptroller, or his duly authorized deputy, and

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

** Thus amended by the Acts of 1929, Chapter 133, and adopted by the people of the State
at the November election of 1930.