572 ARTICLE 19.

ARTICLE 19.

COMPTROLLER.1

1. When to qualify. 2. Penalty and condition of bond. 3. Sufficiency of sureties. 4. Approval of bond 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 expendi- tures. 12. Records of accounts. 13. Records of all official proceedings. 14. Reports from public officers. 15. Account with the treasurer. 16. Monthly examination of treasurer's books. 17. Warrants; how to be drawn. 18. No blank warrants to be signed. 19. Claims against state; how presented. 20. Deduction of sums due to state. 21. Suits against defaulters. 22. Comptroller's account -prima jade evidence. 23. Statement before general election to officers in arrears. Publication 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 operation of ordinary licenses. 27. Stamp on licenses. 28. Blank protests. 29. Statement to public printer of receipts and expenses.

30. Adjustment of claims of state's attor- neys. 31. Annual setting 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. 36. Appropriation for colored schools. 37. Authorized to settle claims of state; approval of Governor and treasurer. 38. Employment of attorneys. 39. Compensation of attorneys. 40. Evidence of compromises to be pre- served. Supervision of Expenditures of Corpo- rations Receiving Appropriations from the State. 41. Charitable and other corporations re- ceiving state appropriations shall annually file with the comptroller itemized statement, showing how such appropriations have been spent. Comptroller to examine their finan- cial condition. 42. No part of appropriation to be applied to purchase of land or erection of buildings. 43. Affidavit required of use of funds. 44. Appropriations to institutions title to which is not in state, only to be paid when mortgage conditional upon land or buildings being used for other purposes, is given state.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1852, ch. 172, sec. 3. 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 laws,

1 As to the state auditor, see art. 81, sec. 240, et seq.

As to the finance department of the state government, see art. 41, sec. 92, et seq.
As to treasurer, see art. 95.
See art. 6, and art. 2, sec. 18, of Md. Constitution.