ARTS. 81 & 82] STATE AUDITOR—RIOTS. 1887

provided, however, that the examination of the books shall be
made in the offices of the different officers whose books are to
be examined.

1902, ch. 257, sec. 220.

228. In case the State auditor shall fail to make the annual
report herein provided for, or shall in other respects wilfully
fail or neglect to perform the duties herein provided for, he
may be removed from office by said board of public works, or
a majority of them. In the event of death, resignation, refusal
to act or removal of said officer, the board of public works
shall have the authority to fill such vacancy.

ARTICLE LXXXII

RIOTS.

1. Owner of property destroyed by rioters to be compensated by the city or county.

2. Conditions of their liability; lim- itations. 3. When indemnity shall not be re- covered. 4. Pleadings.

1888, art. 82, seo. 1. 1860, art. 82, sec. 1. 1835, ch. 137, sec. 1.

1. If in any county or incorporated town or city of this
State, any church, chapel or convent, any dwelling-house, any
house used or designed by any person or any body corporate
as a place for the transaction of business or deposit of property,
any ship, ship yard or lumber yard, any barn, stable or other
outhouse, or any articles of personal property shall be injured
or destroyed, or if any property therein shall be taken away,
injured or destroyed by any riotous or tumultuous assemblage
of people, the full amount of the damage so done shall be
recoverable by the sufferer or sufferers by suit at law against
the county, town or city within whose jurisdiction such riot or
tumult occurred.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1860, art. 82, sec. 2. 1835, ch. 137, sec. 1. 1867, ch. 282.

2. No such liability shall be incurred by any county, incor-
porated town or city, unless the authorities thereof shall have