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COMPTROLLER.

ART. 10

ARTICLE XIX.

COMPTROLLER.

1. When to qualify. 2. Penalty and condition of bond. 3. Sufficiency of sureties. 4. Approval of botod by governor. 5. Bond; where to be recorded. 6. Renewal of bond. 7. Office at Annapolis. 8. Assistant clerks — their salaries. 9. Annual statement of State's finances. 10. Annual estimate of receipts and ex- penses. 11. Books showing revenues and ex- penditures. 12. Records of accounts. 13. Records of all official proceedings. 14. Reports from public officers. 15. Account with the treasurer. 16. Monthly examination of treas- urer's hooks. 17. Warrants; how to be drawn. 18. No blank warrants to be signed. 19. Claims against State; how pre- sented. 20. Deduction of sums due to State. 21. Suits against defaulters. 22. Comptroller's account prima facia evidence. 23. Statement before general election to officers in arrears. Publica- tion of names of defaulters. 24. Publication by banks of unclaimed dividends and deposits. 25. Shall prepare blank licenses for clerks. 26. Sunday to be excepted from opera- tion of ordinary licenses.

27. Stamp on licenses. 28. Blank protests. 20. Statement to public printer of re- ceipts and expenses. 30. Adjustment of claims of State's at- torneys. 31. Annual sotting apart for sinking fund. 32. Investment of surplus revenues. 33. Cancellation of State debts so pur- chased. 34. Warrant on treasurer for such pur- chases. 35. Apportionment of school fund. 30. Appropriation for colored schools. 37. Authorized to settle claims of the State which accrued prior to 1st January. 1909. Provisos. Ap- proval of governor and treasurer. 38. Employment of attorneys. 39. Compensation of attorneys. 40. Evidence of compromises to be pre- served. Supervision of Expenditures of Corporations Receiving Appro- priations from the State. 41. Charitable and other corporations receiving State appropriations shall annually file with the comptroller itemized statement, showing how such appropria- tions have been spent. Comp- troller to examine their financial condition. 42. No part of appropriation to be ap- plied to purchase of land or erec- tion of buildings.

1904, art. 19. sec. 1. 18SS, art. 19. sec, 1. 1860. art. 22. sec. 1. 1852, ch. 172, sec. M.

1853. ch. 403.

1. The comptroller shall file his bond and qualify, by making the
declaration and taking the oath required by the constitution and law-.

As to the state auditor, see art. 81, sec. 229. et seq.