ART. 19.] DEFAULTERS—LICENSES. 237
collector or other officer, certified and signed by the comptroller,
shall be taken and received as prima facie evidence of the debt
or amount therein stated to be due.
P. G. L., (1860,) art. 69, sec. 6. 1876, ch, 206.
23. 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 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 such defaulters, may be recovered in the name of
the State, against their official bond; but no defaulter whose
accounts have remained unsettled for over five years, shall be
advertised.
Ibid art. 22, sec. 21. 1852, ch. 314, sec. 4.
24. The comptroller shall see that the provisions requiring the
publication by the banks and other incorporated moneyed insti-
tutions, of unclaimed dividends and deposits, shall be complied
with.
Ibid sec. 22. 1853, ch. 86, sec. 2.
25. He shall cause to be printed, in the forms prescribed by
law or usage, blank marriage licenses, traders' licenses, ordinary
licenses, non-resident licenses, brokers' licenses, hawkers' and
pedlars' licenses, exhibition licenses, billiard-table licenses, wood-
hucksters' licenses, and all other licenses issued by the clerks of
the courts of this State, and now authorized by law, with the sev-
eral rates, grades and descriptions thereof, with reference to the
character and object of said licenses, the sum to be paid therefor,
and the fractional part of the year, not less than one month or
any number of months for which the same may be issued; and
upon the requisition of the clerks of the several circuit courts,
and of the court of common pleas of Baltimore, shall forthwith
deliver to the said clerks the number and description of licenses
required by them for one year, or the fractional parts of the year
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