1560 OFFICERS. [ART. 69

1888, art. 69, sec. 5. 1860, art. 69, sec. 5. 1856, ch. 16, sec. 5.

5. The State's attorneys for the several counties and for the
city of Baltimore, whenever they shall be informed that any
one has been commissioned in their respective counties or in
the said city who was at the time of his election or appointment
to office in default to the treasury of the State for not account-
ing for and paying over to the treasury any moneys which he
ought to have accounted for and paid into the treasury, shall
cause inquiry to be made of the comptroller for a statement of
the account of the party so commissioned and, if it shall
appear from the certificate of the comptroller that said person
is in default, shall cause to be had the proceeding authorized
by the preceding section; and the failure of any State's attor-
ney to comply with this section shall be a misdemeanor in
office, and on conviction thereof he shall be removed.
Hawkins v. State, 81 Md. 311.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1860, art. 69, sec 6. 1856, ch. 16, sec. 8. 1876, ch. 206.

6. The comptroller shall furnish each officer of the State,
whose accounts are in arrears, at least sixty days prior to a
general 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 publish
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 every such defaulter may be
recovered in the name of the State against the official bond of
such defaulter; but no defaulter whose accounts have remained
unsettled for over five years shall be advertised.

Ibid, sec 7. 1860, art. 69, sec. 7. 1856, ch. 16, sec. 9.

7. The committees on elections of the two houses of the
general assembly shall, at every session thereof, ascertain from
an examination of the books of the treasury, whether any
member elect of their respective houses is in default to the
treasury and, if so, report the same to their respective houses.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1860, art. 69, sec. 8. 1856, ch. 16, sec. 6.

8. The writ of quo warranto shall be deemed and taken as
sufficient for the institution, prosecution and decision of the
inquiry herein authorized and commanded.