ART. 19] APPROPRIATIONS TO CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. 479

poses, securing any appropriation from the State treasury under the
provisions of an act of the general assembly, shall on or before the first
day of February after said appropriation or any part thereof shall
have been received, and annually thereafter, as long as said association
or incorporation shall continue a beneficiary of the State, file with
the comptroller a full and accurate account, giving, as far as the said
comptroller may consider practicable, an itemized statement of how
the said amount so received from the State has been expended; said
account to be sworn to by the president, vice-president or treasurer of
said association or institution or commanding officer of such military
organization. All appropriations made by the legislature to any of
such associations or institutions, if not so provided in the act making
such appropriation, shall be payable one-half in the first fiscal year
wherein said appropriation is made and one-half in the next fiscal year,
and the comptroller is hereby instructed not to draw his warrant for
any payment until such an account of the expenditures, to the full satis-
faction of the said comptroller, shall have been filed; provided, the
said institution shall have received an appropriation prior to the
enactment of this section; and the comptroller is hereby authorized, in
his discretion, for the purpose of informing himself of the expenditures
of said institutions, to cause an examination of their financial affairs
and management to be made.

1904, art. 19, sec. 42. 1900, ch. 239, sec. 3.

42. No part of any appropriation made by the State to any institu-
tion or association, the character of which is set forth in the preceding
section, shall be applied to the purchase of any land or erection of any
building, unless permission to purchase such land or erect such build-
ing be directly given in the act making such appropriation.