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securities of this State, until the same shall be burned by the finance com-
mittee and the ways and means committee as prescribed by section 23
of this article.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 27. 1912, sec. 27. 1904, sec. 27. 1888, sec. 27. 1872, ch. 276, sec. 6.

27. The comptroller is hereby directed to draw his warrant on the
treasurer for the payment of the bonds or certificates so taken up or pur-
chased under the provisions of this article.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 28. 1912, sec. 28. 1904, sec. 28. 1890, ch. 571, sec. 28. 1916, ch. 601.

1935, ch. 30.

28. All bonds, certificates of stock and other securities purchased or
obtained by the treasurer for the use of the sinking fund, or transferred
and assigned to or deposited with the treasurer, in trust or otherwise, by
any corporation of this or any other State, or by any individual, pursuant
to any law or laws of this State, and all bonds, certificates of stock and
other securities belonging to the State shall be deposited and kept in some
safe deposit company in the City of Baltimore to be selected by the Trea-
surer with the approval of the Board of Public Works; the Treasurer alone
shall not be entitled to have access to the box, boxes, vault or vaults, where
such securities shall be kept, but on all occasions when access to the same
is to be had by him he shall be accompanied by either the Governor, the
Comptroller or the Chief Deputy Comptroller, and on all occasions when
access to the same is necessary and the Treasurer is unable to attend in per-
son, the Chief Deputy Treasurer shall be entitled to have access thereto if
accompanied by either the Governor or Comptroller; the box or boxes,
vault or vaults, where such securities shall be kept shall be so constructed
that two entirely different keys shall be required to gain access to said
securities, one of which keys for each such box or vault shall be in the
custody of the Treasurer and the other in that of the Comptroller.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 29. 1912, sec. 29. 1904, sec. 29. 1890, ch. 571, sec. 29.

29. The treasurer of the State and the comptroller of the treasury shall
each forthwith procure a properly bound book to be used for the sinking
fund account, in each of which shall be properly and regularly entered a
registry of all bonds, certificates of stock and other securities belonging to
the sinking funds; said books shall be ruled in columns appropriately
headed, in which said several columns shall be entered the number, kind,
class, character, value, denomination or other proper description of all
bonds, certificates of stock or other securities now held and belonging to
the sinking fund of the State, and in all cases of future purchases or
acquisitions for said funds, the kind or class of security so purchased or
acquired, the proper number borne by each such bond, certificate of stock
or other security so purchased or acquired, the number of shares of stock
represented by each such certificate, the par value of each bond, share of
stock or other security, the price paid for the same, the name of the person,
firm or corporation from whom or through whom the same was or were
purchased or acquired, the date of each such purchase or acquisition and
the 'date of depositing each such security in the box or boxes, vault or
vaults of the safe deposit company, or any other place rented by the State
for that purpose, and finally a column headed remarks, in which shall be
entered the final disposition made of each such security so purchased or
acquired, whether burned, redeemed or otherwise disposed of, and the date,