330 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

verified by oath, he shall suffer the pains and penalties which by
law are prescribed for wilful and corrupt perjury; and if an
auctioneer, shall also forfeit his office.

1873, ch. 249.

116. The proceeds of such auction duties to the amount of
twenty thousand dollars shall be paid over by the comptroller of
Baltimore city, as the same shall be received by him, to the
mayor and city council of Baltimore, to be by said mayor and1
city council annually appropriated to the purpose of deepening
and improving a channel in the Chesapeake bay and Patapsco
river, and the harbor of the city of Baltimore.

Ibid.

117. It shall be the duty of the mayor and city council of
Baltimore, on or before the fifteenth day of September in each
year, to report to the comptroller of the State a fair and strict
account of their disbursement of the fund arising from said
auction duties, as to the amount the same are appropriated in the
preceding section, in relation to the deepening and improving
said channel, Patapsco river and Baltimore city harbor; and the
said comptroller shall report the same to the general assembly.

Ibid.

118. If the net proceeds of said auction duties shall exceed
the sum of twenty thousand dollars, the excess of said duties,
above that sum shall, for each and every year that they shall
exceed that sum, be paid over by the comptroller of the city of
Baltimore to the treasurer of the State; and in case of such ex-
cess as aforesaid, the comptroller of the city of Baltimore shall
also render to the comptroller of the State a brief statement or
account, showing the amounts received by him on account of
auction duties, the amount paid the mayor and city council of
Baltimore, under section 116, and the balance due the State
and payable to the State treasurer—which said balance, if any,
and whenever the same shall arise from said auction duties, shall
be paid to said treasurer on or before the twenty-fifth day of
September in each and every year.