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COMPTROLLER. [ART. 9.

To be subject to
Inspection

office shall at all times be subject to the inspection of the governor
and the members of the legislature.

Id s 14
1852, c 56, s 3
To require
reports from
officers

14. He shall obtain from all public officers, and from all bodies
politic and corporate who have heretofore made their report and
returns to the governor or treasurer, full reports from time to time,
concerning the revenues or taxes of the State, and all such papers
or copies of papers pertaining to the revenue or taxes thereof, which
he may deem necessary.

Id a 15
1857, c 56, s 4
To keep
accounts with
treasurer

15. He shall keep an account between the State and the treas-
urer, who shall he charged therein with the balance in the treasury
at the time said account is commenced, and all moneys received by
him, and shall be credited with all warrants drawn on and paid by
him.

Id K 16
1852, c 56, s 4
To procure
monthly state-
ments from
bank

To examine
books of
treasurer

16. He shall, at least once in every month, carefully examine the
accounts of debts and credits kept in the books of the treasurer,
and shall procure from the bank in which the public funds may be
deposited, monthly statements of all moneys deposited by, or drawn
out by the treasurer; which statements the bank is hereby required
to furnish.

Id s 17
1852, c 56, s 5
Warrants, how
to be drawn

17. Every warrant drawn by the comptroller on the treasurer
for the disbursement of money, to be valid, shall express upon its
face the purpose for which it is drawn, and the act of the General
Assembly by which the appropriation is made, and the comptroller
shall keep an abstract of every warrant so drawn by him, and also
of every warrant drawn by him in favor of the treasurer for the
payment of money into the treasury for the Use of the State, and a
duplicate of each warrant drawn for the receipt of money into the
treasury shall be kept and preserved by the treasurer as his voucher
for the receipt thereof

1R62, c 140
Not to sign
blank warrants,
to register war-
rants before
issue

18. The comptroller shall not sign any warrant for the disburse-
ment of money in blank, and he shall permit no warrant either for
the disbursement or receipt of money to be issued from his office,
unless the entry of the amount stated in such warrant, and the pur-
pose and account for which it is issued, be first entered on the books
of his office.

1862, c 180
To report on
claims against
State

19. All persons having claims against the State for errors in the
payment of their State taxes, or for sums erroneously paid into the
treasury, shall present the same with the proofs and vouchers thereof
to the comptroller, who shall examine the same, and report to the
General Assembly at the next session thereof the names of such
persons as in his opinion are entitled to an allowance for said erro-
neous payments, and the amount that ought to be paid to each.

1862, c 180
When and how
to pay claims.

20. Upon demand being made upon the comptroller by any per-
son or corporate body, having a claim against the State, due to him
in his own right, if such person or corporation is indebted to the
State, as shown by the books of the treasurer, or in any manner
ascertained to an amount less than the sum so due and claimed, the
comptroller shall deduct the sum so due the State from the amount