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TIME——STANDERD. TREASURER. [ARTS. 94 & 95

ARTICLE XCIV.

TIME—STANDARD.

1. Time, standard, what It is.

1904. art. 94, sec. 1. 1888. art. 94. sec. 1. 1884, ch. 433.
1. The standard time throughout the State shall be that of the
seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich, by which all
courts, banking institutions and public offices and all legal or official
proceedings shall be regulated.

ARTICLE XCV.

TREASURER.

1. Oath. 2. Bond. 3. Oath to be made by securities. 4. Sums so sworn to must equal amount of penalty. 5. Bond to be recorded; certified cop- ies. 6. Renewal of bond; refusal to renew to be disqualification. 7. Clerks to treasurer, their salaries. 8. Amount of funded and purchased debt to be cancelled. 9. Funded debt created for benefit of internal improvements, or on no- count of tobacco debt. 10. Payment of interest payable hi Eu- rope. 11. Substitution of debt in United States currency for sterling bonds. 12. Treasurer to keep books, papers and accounts belonging to office.

13. Erroneous payment of taxes, claims for. 14. Debts due by the state to be set-off against debts owing to the state. 15. Same right to exist against as- signee of claim. 16. Duplicates of lost evidences of debt. 17. Appointment of a Baltimore bank president as agent of; his duties. 18. No compensation to such agent; for what he is to be reimbursed. 19. Agent to give hond. 20. Oath to be made by securities on such bond. 21. Bond to be recorded, certified copies. 22. Record of and report on coupons paid. 23. Counting and cancellation of bonds and stocks; report to be filed ; bonds to be burned. 24. Coupons paid by agents to be trans- mitted semi-annually.

As to the duties of the treasurer relative to safe deposit and fidelity com-
panies, and the sum to be deposited by such companies with the treasurer, see
art. 23. sec. 107. et seq.

The treasurer is a member of the state board of canvassers of elections—art.
33. sec. 87.

As to the state auditor, see art. 81, sec. 220, et seq.