2068 TIME—STANDARD. TREASURER. [ARTS. 94 & 95

ARTICLE XCIV.

TIME—STANDARD.

1. Time, standard, what it is.

1888, art. 94, sec. 1. 1884, ch 433.

1. The standard time throughout the State shall be that of
the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich,
by which all courts, banking institutions and public offices and
all legal or official proceedings shall be regulated.

ARTICLE XCV.

TREASURER.

1 Oath. 2 Bond 3. Oath to be made by securities. 4 Sums so sworn to must equal amount of penalty. 5 Bond to be recorded; certified copies. 6. Renewal of bond; refusal to renew to be disqualification. 7 Clerks to treasurer, their salaries. 8 Anlount of funded and purchased debt to be cancelled. 9. Funded debt created for ben'eflt of Internal improvements, or on account of tobacco debt. 10 Payment of interest payable in Europe 11 Substitution of debt in United States currency for sterling bonds. 12 Treasurer to keep books, papeis and accounts belonging to office. 13. Erroneous payment of taxes, claims for.

14. Debts due by the State to be set off against debts owing to the State 15. Same right to exist against assignee of claims 16 Duplicates of lost evidences of debt 17. Appointment of a Baltimore bank president as agent of; his duties. 18. No compensation to such agent ; for what he is to be reimbursed . 19. Agent to give bond. 20. Oath to be made by securities on such bond. 21. Bond to be recorded, certified copies. 22 Record of and report on coupons paid. 23. Counting and cancellation of bonds and stocks , report to be filed; bonds to be burned 24 Coupons paid by agents to be transmitted semi-annually.