security, satisfactory to the Governor, for the safekeeping
and forthcoming, when required of said deposits), 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 duty authorized deputy, and on
checks countersigned by the Comptroller, or his duly author-
ized deputy, and not otherwise. The Treasurer or such of
his deputies as may be authorized to do so by the Legisla-
ture shall take receipts for all moneys paid from the Treas-
ury Department; and receipt for moneys received by him
shall be endorsed upon warrants signed by the Comptroller,
or such deputy as may be authorized to do so by law, with-
out which warrants, so signed, no acknowledgement of
money received into the Treasury shall be valid; and upon
warrants issued by the Comptroller, or his duly authorized
deputy, the Treasurer shall make arrangements for the
payment of the interest of the public debt, and for the pur-
chase thereof, on account of the sinking fund. Every bond,
certificate, or other evidence of the debt of the State shall
be signed by the Treasurer, and countersigned by the
Comptroller; and no new certificate or other evidence in-
tended to replace another shall be issued until the old one
shall be delivered to the Treasurer, and authority executed
in due form for the transfer of the same filed in his office,
and the transfer accordingly made on the books thereof,
and the certificate or other evidence cancelled; but the Leg-
islature may make provisions for the loss of certificates,
or other evidences of the debt; and may prescribe, by law,
the manner in which the Treasurer shall receive and keep
the moneys of the Stated.

SEC. 4. The Treasurer shall render his accounts quar-
terly to the Comptroller, and shall publish monthly, in such
newspapers as the Governor may direct, an abstract there-
of, showing the amount of cash on hand, and the place or
places of deposit thereof, and on the third day of each
regular session of the Legislature he shall submit to the
Senate and House of Delegates fair and accurate copies of
all accounts by him from time to time, rendered and settled
with the Comptroller. He shall at all times submit to the
Comptroller the inspection of the money in his hands, and
perform all other duties that shall be prescribed by law..

SEC. 5. The Comptroller shall qualify and enter on the
duties of his office on the third Monday of January next.

1 This amendment was submitted by Chapter 133 of the Acts of 1929 and
ratified by the people in November, 1930..