598 TREASURER. [ART. 95

1892, ch. 268.

7. The treasurer of Maryland shall appoint three clerks to
assist in the discharge of his duties, one of whom shall receive
an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars, and the other two
of whom shall each receive an annual sum of twelve hundred
dollars.

1890, ch. 571.

23. The comptroller and treasurer shall within the first two
weeks of January, April, July and October in every year, in the
presence of the Governor, count and cancel the bonds and cer-
tificates for stocks of the State and count and examine the other
securities purchased or obtained by the treasurer for the use of
the sinking fund; and a statement of the bonds and certificates
so counted and those so counted and cancelled signed by the
comptroller and treasurer and countersigned by the Governor
shall be filed in the office of the comptroller within one week
after each such count and cancellation; and the committee on
finance of the Senate and the committee on ways and means of
the House of Delegates shall jointly during each session of the
legislature and within the first month of such session, examine
and count all such bonds and certificates of stock so purchased
or obtained up to the. close of the fiscal year next preceding such
session, and cancelled or stamped "purchased for the sinking fund, "
as required by the provisions of this article, and shall burn all such
bonds and certificates of stock as belong to the overdue debt of
the State, and shall examine carefully all bonds or certificates of
stock maturing at some future day for the purpose of ascertaining
that the same have been endorsed or marked, cancelled or stamped
"purchased for the sinking fund, " as required by section twenty-six
of this article, and that the accruing coupons and interest thereon
have been collected and credited to said sinking fund, and shall
make a joint report of their proceedings therein to both houses
of the legislature, within two weeks after they shall have finished
their said duties as prescribed by this section.

Ibid.

- 26. All money remaining in the treasury of the State at the
close of each fiscal year in excess of one hundred and fifty thou-
sand dollars and of the sums required to meet the interest due