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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.

F. G. L., (1860,) art. 22, sec. 15. 1852, ch. 56, sec. 4.

15. He shall keep an account between the State and the
treasurer, who shall be 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.

Ibid. sec. 16. 1852, ch. 56, sec. 4.

16. He shall, at least once in every month, carefully examine
the accounts of debits 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.

Ibid. sec. 17. 1852, ch. 56, sec. 5.

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.

Ibid. sec. 18. 1852, ch. 56, sec. 6. 1862, ch. 140.

18. The comptroller shall not sign any warrant for the dis-
bursement of money in bank, 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 purpose and account for which it is issued, be;
first entered on the books of his office.