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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 satisfaction of the said comptroller, shall have been filed; provided,
the said institution shall have received an appropriation prior to the enact-
ment of this section; and the comptroller is hereby authorized, in his dis-
cretion, for the purpose of informing himself of the expenditures of said
institutions, to cause an examination of their financial affairs and manage-
ment to be made.

An. Code, sec. 42. 1904, sec. 42. 1900, ch. 239, sec. 3.

42. No part of any appropriation made by the State to any institution
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 building be directly
given in the act making such appropriation.

An. Code, sec. 43. 1912, ch. 576.

43. It shall be unlawful for the Comptroller of the State to issue a
warrant to any institution or corporation of this State for any sum of
money or part of any sum which may be appropriated by the General
Assembly to such institutions or corporations until the said institution
or corporation has filed with the Comptroller of the State an affidavit of
the president and treasurer of such institution or corporation, and if
such institution or corporation has not a president or treasurer, then such
affidavit to be made by the officer or person having charge of and the dis-
bursement of the funds of such institution or corporation, that they, as
such officers, have personal knowledge that no sum of money has been paid
to, or promised to be paid to any legislative agent, attorney or lobbyists for
any services rendered in securing the passage of the act making such
appropriation.

An. Code, sec. 44. 1914, ch. 426.

44. No appropriation to any association or incorporated institution
maintained for industrial, educational, medical, humane, military or chari-
table purposes for the purchase of land or the erection of buildings, the title
to which is not in the State of Maryland, shall be payable and the Comp-
troller shall not draw his warrant for the payment of such appropriation
until such association or incorporated institution shall have delivered to
him a duly executed mortgage without interest, which shall secure to the
State a first lien upon said land or building for a sum equal to the State
appropriation, to be due and payable at any time, the land or building
to be purchased or erected with such State appropriation shall be used for
any purpose other than that for which the money is appropriated.