COMPTROLLER 691

Supervision of Expenditures of Corporations Receiving Appropriations

from the State.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 41. 1912, sec. 41. 1904, sec. 41. 1900, ch. 239, secs. 1 and 2.

37. All associations or incorporated institutions maintained for indus-
trial, educational, medical, humane, military or charitable purposes, secur-
ing any appropriation from the State treasury under the provisions of
an act of the general assembly, shall on or before the first day of February
after said appropriation or any part thereof shall have been received,
and annually thereafter, as long as said association or incorporation shall
continue a beneficiary of the State, file with the comptroller a full and
accurate account, giving, as far as the said comptroller may consider
practicable, an itemized statement of how the said amount so received
from the State has been expended; said account to be sworn to by the presi-
dent, vice-president or treasurer of said association or institution or com-
manding officer of such military organization. All appropriations made
by the legislature to any of such associations or institutions, if not so pro-
vided 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, 1924, sec. 42. 1912, sec. 42. 1904, sec. 42. 1900, ch. 239, sec. 3.

38. 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, 1924, sec. 43. 1912, sec. 43. 1912, ch. 576.

39. 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, 1924, sec. 44. 1912, sec. 44. 1914, 426.

40. No appropriation to any association or incorporated institution
maintained for industrial, educational, medical, humane, military or chari-