1026 OFFICERS—DEFAULTERS. [ART. 69.

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 whiich he ought to have
accounted for and paid into the treasury, shall cause inquiry to be
made of the comptroller 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 to be
lad the proceeding authorized by the preceding section; and the
failure of any State's attorney to comply with this section shall be
a misdemeanor in office, and on conviction thereof he shall be
removed.

F. G. L., (1860,) art. 69, sec. 6. 1856, ch. 16, sec. 8. 1876, ch. 206.

6. The comptroller shall furnish each officer of the State,
whose accounts are in arrears, at least sixty days prior to a gen-
eral election, a full statement of his accounts, and in default of
his accounting for such deficiencies within thirty days, then it
shall be the duty of the comptroller to publish 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 every 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.

Ibid, sec 7. 1856, ch 16, sec. 9.

7. The committees on elections of the two houses of the gen-
eral assembly shall, at every session thereof, ascertain from an
examination 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.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1856, ch. 16, sec. 6.

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