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in pursuance of these provisions, shall be cancelled by the treasurer in the
presence of the comptroller, by writing the word " cancelled " across the
face of said bonds or certificates, with the date of said cancellation in red
ink, and signing the name of the said treasurer thereto also in red ink;
and said bonds or certificates shall then be held by the treasurer to the
credit of the sinking fund, and the interest thereon shall accrue to said fund
until such time as the general assembly may dispose of the said bonds or
certificates.

An. Code, sec. 34. 1904, sec. 34. 1888, sec. 34. 1872, ch. 276, sec. 6.

34. The comptroller is hereby directed to draw his warrant on the
treasurer for the payment of the bonds or certificates so taken up or
purchased.

An. Code, sec. 35. 1904, sec. 35. 1888, sec. 35. 1878, ch. 91, sec. 1.

35. In making the apportionments required by article 77, title, " Public
Education," it shall be the duty of the comptroller to equalize, as far as
may be possible, the sums to be apportioned, so as to apportion and dis-
tribute the same amount, as far as may be practicable, on the fifteenth day
of June, the first day of October, the first day of January, and the fifteenth
day of March, in each year.

An. Code, sec. 36. 1904, sec. 36. 1888, sec. 36. 1878, ch. 91, sec. 2.

36. Until otherwise expressly directed by law the comptroller shall
charge to said fund and pay therefrom the annual appropriations that have
been or may hereafter continue to be made for the education of colored
children, and also with like appropriations for the support of the state
normal school, for the colored normal school, and the expenses of the state
board of education.

See art. 77, sec. 200, et seq.; also art. 77, sec. 10.

An. Code, sec. 37. 1904, sec. 37. 1888, sec. 37. 1884, 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. 1920, ch. 365, sec. 37.

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
and in arrears to the State for two years 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 prin-
cipal 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 pay-
ment into the Treasury of the amount required by him to be paid in settle-
ment as aforesaid; the Comptroller shall be satisfied after thorough exam-
ination 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