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or receive any fees, commissions or perquisites of any kind in
addition to his salary for the performance of any duty or
services whatsoever. In case of a vacancy in either of the
offices by death, or otherwise, the Governor, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, shall fill such vacancy by
appointment, to continue until another election, or a choice by
the Legislature, as the case may be, and until the qualification
of the successor. The Comptroller and the Treasurer shall
keep their offices at the seat of Government, and shall take such
oath, and enter into such bonds for the faithful discharge of
their duties as are now, or may hereafter be prescribed by law.
Thomas v. Owens, 4 Md. 189. Archer v State, 74 Md. 410 and 443.
Davidson v. Brice, 91 Md. 682.

Sec. 2. The Comptroller shall have the general superintend-
ence of the fiscal affairs of the State; he shall digest and pre-
pare plans for the improvement and management of the revenue,
and for the support of the public credit; prepare and report
estimates of the revenue and expenditures of the State; super-
intend and enforce the prompt collection of all taxes and
revenue; adjust and settle, on terms prescribed by law, with
delinquent collectors and receivers of taxes and State revenue;
preserve all public accounts; decide on the forms of keeping
and stating accounts; grant, under regulations prescribed by
Law, all warrants for money to be paid out of the Treasury, in
pursuance of appropriations by Law, and countersign all checks
drawn by the Treasurer upon any bank or banks, in which the
moneys of the State may, from time to time, be deposited;
prescribe the formalities of the transfer of stock, or other evi-
dence of the State debt, and countersign the same, without
which such evidence shall not be valid; he shall make to the
General Assembly full reports of all his proceedings, and of
the state of the treasury department within ten days after the
commencement of each Session; and perform such other duties
as shall be prescribed by Law.

Billingsley v. State, 14 Md. 369.

Sec. 3. The Treasurer shall receive the moneys of the State,
and, until otherwise prescribed by law, deposit them, as soon
as received, to the credit of the State, in such bank or banks as
he may, from time to time, with the approval of the Governor,
select (the said bank or banks giving security, satisfactory to
the Governor, for the safekeeping and forthcoming, when
required, of said deposits), and shall disburse the same for the
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