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ment and management of the revenue, and for the support of the
public credit; prepare and report estimates of the revenue and ex-
penditures of the State; superintend and enforce the prompt collec-
tion 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 regulations, 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 Treas-
urer upon any bank or banks, in which the monies of the State may,
from time to time, be deposited; prescribe the formalities of the trans-
fer 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 possi-
ble 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 warrants and checks which would be necessary if this plan
were put into effect. A similar provision was approved for the State
Treasurer's Office so that the State Treasurer will be authorized to
appoint a deputy, or deputies, to sign checks in payment of State
obligations.
3—DIVISION OF DEPOSIT AND DISBURSEMENT
State Treasurer's Office—Annapolis
Telephone: 3117
Name Postoffice
State Treasurer:
Hooper S. Miles (Term expires Jan. 1947)................Baltimore
Chief Clerk:
Charles M. Speicher......................................Annapolis
Assistant Chief Clerk:
Clarence M. Taylor......................... ...................Baltimore
Assistant Clerks:
Howard M. Pawley......... .........................Baltimore
Wilbur G. Jones (on Military Leave)— ............ Severna Park
Dorothy Mitchell .................................Annapolis
Doris Peddicord ...................... ............ Harwood
Frances Dize .....................................Annapolis
Stenographers:
Virginia Ellinger ........... ........................Baltimore
Alice Slacum — ............................Annapolis
Nettie M. Revelle.................. ..............Annapolis
Thayer Larrimore ....................................Annapolis
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