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ART. XIX] COMPTROLLER. 67
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ARTICLE XIX,
COMPTROLLER.
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37. Settlement of claims against state
officials and their sureties ; per-
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sons indebted to state prior to
1917.
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17.
This section referred to; see notes to article 2, section 17 of the Mary-
land Constitution. Nowell v. Harrington, 122 Md. 489.
1904, art. 19, sec. 37. 1888. art. 10. sec. 37. 18S4, ch. 116. sec. 1. 1888, ch. 537.
1892, ch. 83. 1894, ch. 300. 1896, ch. 77. 1898, ch. 205. 1900, ch. 556.
1902, ch. 537. 1904, ch. 494. 1906. ch. 351. 1910, ch. 445 (p. 63).
1912, ch. 574. 1914. ch. 676. 1916. ch. 600. 1918, ch. 245.
37. The Comptroller is authorized and empowered to adjust and
settle the claims of the State against all collectors, sheriffs, clerks of
courts, registers of wills, and other collectors or receivers of public
money and their sureties, and against corporations and individuals who
may be indebted to the State in all cases where said claims accrued
prior to and including the year 1916 and whether said claims be in the
form of judgment or otherwise, and for the purpose of closing all such
cases the Comptroller is fully authorized to compromise the same by
abating the interest that has accrued, or any portion thereof, or any
part of the principal debt, in his discretion, so as best to subserve
the interest of the State, and shall grant discharge to said parties and
their sureties upon the payment into the Treasury of the amount re-
quired by him to be paid in settlement as aforesaid; the Comptroller
shall be satisfied after thorough examination into the claims that the
same could not be collected by the State by legal process; and further,
that the Governor and Treasurer for the time being shall each approve
in writing any such abatement before the same shall be effective; and
provided, further that no discharge or acquittance under this section
shall be effective unless the party or parties to be benefited shall first
pay the attorneys who shall have the case in hand the legal fees and
tees of clerks and sheriffs.
This section referred to; see notes to article 15, section 1 of the consti-
tution. Schneider v. Yellott, 124 Md. 98.
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