216 CLERKS OF COURTS. [ART. 17.

all necessary expenses, fail to pay such clerk the salary provided
for by the constitution, and said clerks, or any of them, shall,
under section first, article fifteen, of the constitution, have paid
to the State any sum or sums of money as excess, after retaining
his salary, such excess is hereby appropriated to the payment of
the salary or salaries so in arrear until each of said clerks shall
have received the full amount thereof; and it shall be the duty
of the comptroller of the State to draw a warrant upon the State
treasurer for the payment of said arrears out of the said excess,
not to exceed the amount so in arrear, and not to exceed the
whole amount of said excess paid into the treasury of the
State.

P. G L., (1860,) art. 18, sec. 10. 1853, ch. 444, sec. 2-3. 1862, ch. 265.

12. Every clerk, including the clerk of the court of appeals,
shall annually return to the comptroller a full and accurate ac-
count of all his fees, emoluments and receipts, whether on his
own account as such clerk, or for the State, city or county, in-
cluding fines and forfeitures, and also of all expenses incident to
his office; and such accounts shall be rendered under oath, and
in such forms and supported by such proofs as shall be prescribed
by the comptroller; and every clerk, including said clerk of the
court of appeals, shall render with his account of the expenses
incident to his office, a list of the clerks employed by him,
stating the rate of compensation allowed to each, and the duties
which they severally perform, and, also, the sums paid for
stationery, official and contingent expenses, fuel and other items,
and stating the purposes for which said expenses are applied;
and in the account of fees, there shall be a separate statement of
all those fees charged during the year included in said account,
which at the date of said account, remained uncollected.

Ibid. sec. 11. 1853, ch. 444, sec. 5.

13. Any clerk who shall be guilty of false swearing in taking

the oath required by the preceding section and constitution, in

returning to the comptroller an account of the receipts and

expenses of his office, with the intention to deceive and defraud

the treasury, shall be guilty of perjury.