74 CLERKS OF COURTS——COMPTROLLER. [ART. 19

expressly forbidden to antedate any license or issue to any person
or persons any license other than in the month for which the
same is legally obtainable, under a penalty of fifty dollars for
each and every offense, said penalty to be recovered by an action
at law upon his official bond.

1898, ch. 294.

62. Every clerk shall lay before every grand jury attending
his court a list of all licenses granted by him for two years prior
to the meeting of such grand jury, setting forth in full the names
of the parties licensed, the date of issue, the amount of capital
stock, if any, the expiration of and the value of such licenses,
under a penalty of fifty dollars for each and every offense, said
penalty to be recovered by an action at law upon his official bond.

ARTICLE XIX.

COMPTROLLER.

8. Assistant clerks — their salaries.

37. Authority to adjust claims against defaulters and delinquents.

1892, ch. 299. 1894, ch. 172.

8. He may employ a clerk whose compensation shall be
eighteen hundred dollars per annum, and two assistant clerks
whose compensation shall be twelve hundred dollars each per
annum.

1892, ch. 83. 1894, ch. 300. 1896, ch. 77. 1898, ch. 205.
37. The Comptroller is authorized and empowered to adjust
and settle the claims of the State against all collectors, sheriffs,
clerks of courts and registers of wills, and other collectors or
receivers of public moneys and their securities, and against
corporations and individuals who may be indebted to the State,
in all cases where said claims accrued prior to and including the
year 1896, and whether said claims be in the form of judgment
or otherwise; and for the purpose of closing all such cases, the
Comptroller is fully authorized to compromise the same by