TREASURER.

ARTICLE 95.

TREASURER.

	7. Chief Deputy Treasurer; assistants; clerks; bond; salary. 17. Appointment of bank president as agent; his duties. 19. Agent to give bond; collateral secu- rity.	28. Keeping of securities; access to. Sinking Fund. 38. Investment of surplus moneys in treasury.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 7. 1912. sec. 7. 1904. sec. 7. 1888, sec. 7. 1828, ch. 74, secs. 3, 4.

1834, ch. 229, sec. 2. 1860, ch. 199. 1872. ch. 104. 1892, ch. 268.

1931, ch. 245.

7. The Treasurer of Maryland shall appoint clerks, assistants and other
help in such numbers and at such salaries as may be provided for by the
Budget of appropriations, all of whom shall perform such duties as may be
assigned to them from time to time by the Treasurer. He may designate
one of his clerks or assistants as Chief Deputy Treasurer, and not exceeding
two other clerks or assistants as Deputy Treasurers. Before any person
shall act as Chief Deputy Treasurer or Deputy Treasurer, such person
shall give a bond to the State of Maryland, with security or securities ap-
proved by the Governor in the penalty of two hundred thousand dollars
($200, 000), with condition that he will truly and faithfully discharge,
execute and perform, all and singular, the powers and duties of Chief
Deputy Treasurer or Deputy Treasurer, as the case may be. The Chief
Deputy Treasurer and each Deputy Treasurer upon his designation and
qualification, as above provided, shall have power to disburse the moneys
of the State for the purposes of the State, according to law. including the
power to sign or countersign checks, upon warrants drawn by the Comp-
troller, or his duly authorized deputy, and on checks countersigned by the
Comptroller or his duly authorized deputy. The Chief Deputy Treasurer,
and each other Deputy Treasurer, shall take receipts for all moneys paid
from the Treasury Department; and receipt for moneys received by him
shall be endorsed upon warrants signed by the Comptroller, 'or such deputy
as may be authorized to do so by law, without which warrants so signed
no acknowledgment of money received in the Treasury shall be valid. The
exercise of the powers conferred upon the Chief Deputy Treasurer, and
each other Deputy Treasurer by this section, shall be subject to all of the
limitations imposed by law upon the Treasurer in the performance of such
powers. The Chief Deputy Treasurer and each other Deputy Treasurer
shall act as such only during the pleasure of the Treasurer, and the power
to act as such Chief Deputy Treasurer or Deputy Treasurer, may be ter-