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QUALIFICATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS OF OFFICERS. [ART. 24.

Id s 5
1856, c 16, s 5.
State's attor-
neys to issue.

5. The State's attorneys for the several counties and for the city
of Baltimore, whenever they shall be informed that any one has
been commissioned in their respective counties or the said city who
was at the time of his election or appointment to office in default to
the treasury of the State for not accounting for and paying over to
the treasury any moneys which he ought to have accounted for and
paid into the treasury, shall cause inquiry to be made of the comp-
troller for a statement of the account of the party so commissioned,
and if it shall appear from the certificate of the comptroller that
said person is in default, shall cause the proceeding to be had au-
thorized by the preceding section, and the failure of any State's
attorney to comply with the provisions of this section shall be a
misdemeanor in office, and, on conviction thereof, he shall be re-
moved.

1876, c 206.
Comptroller to
furnish
accounts

6. The comptroller shall furnish each officer of the State, whose
accounts are in arrears, at least sixty days prior to a general elec-
tion, a full statement of his accounts, and, in default of his account-
ing for such deficiencies within thirty days, then it shall be the duty

Publication.

of the comptroller to have published weekly, for one month, in one
or more newspapers in the county or city in which said defaulters
have held, or may be holding office, and in no other newspapers, the
names and titles of said officers with the amount of said deficiencies,
and the cost of advertisement of the account of each such defaulter
may be recovered in the name of the State against the official bond
of such defaulter. But no defaulter whose accounts have remained
unsettled for over five years shall be advertised.

Id s 7
1856, c 16, s 9
Committees on
elections to re-
port members of
General Assem-
bly who are
defaulters.

7. The committees on elections of the two houses of the General
Assembly shall, at every session thereof, ascertain from an exami-
nation of the books of the treasury whether any member-elect of
their respective houses is in default to the treasury, and if so, report
the same to their respective houses.

Id s 8
1856, c 16, s 6
Quo warranto
sufficient to test
light to office

8. The writ of quo warranto shall be deemed and taken as suffi-
cient for the institution, prosecution, and decision of the inquiry
herein authorized and commanded.

Id s 9
1856, c 16, s 7
Acts done while
in office not
invalidated

9. Nothing contained in this article shall invalidate any act done
by any officer within the scope of his authority, so long as his com-
mission shall be unannulled as herein provided.

Id s 10
1832, c 260
Postmaster,
marshal or
deputy shall
not hold any
State office

10. No postmaster or his deputies, nor marshal or his deputies,
shall hold any office under the government of this State, or exercise
any of the functions of any officer, under the penalty of fifty dollars
for every offence, to be recovered by indictment in the Circuit Court
for the county where the offence may be committed, or in the Crimi-
nal Court of Baltimore, if committed in said city.

Id s 11
1805, c 107
Sheriff, con-
stable or collec-
tor of taxes
shall not pur-
chase claims.

11. No sheriff, constable, or collector of taxes shall, while he
continues in office, purchase any debt or claim held by or due from
any person residing in the county or city wherein he is sheriff, con-
stable, or collector of taxes, under the penalty of fifty dollars for
each offence.