ART. 95] SINKING FUND——DEPOSIT OF SECURITIES. 2077

securities now held and belonging to the sinking fund of the
State, and in all cases of future purchases or acquisitions for
said funds, the kind or class of security so purchased or
acquired, the proper number borne by each such bond, certifi-
cate of stock or other security so purchased or acquired, the
number of shares of stock represented by each such certificate,
the par value of each bond, share of stock or other security,
the price paid for the same, the name of the person, firm or
corporation from whom or through whom the same was or
were purchased or acquired, the date of each such purchase
or acquisition and the date of depositing each such security in
the box or boxes, vault or vaults of the safe deposit company,
or any other place rented by the State for that purpose, and
finally a column headed remarks, in which shall be entered the
final disposition made of each such security so purchased or
acquired, whether burned, redeemed or otherwise disposed of,
and the date, authority and cause of such disposition; one
of said books shall be kept at the comptroller's office and the
other at the office of the treasurer, and shall each be duly and
promptly posted in the manner as aforesaid under the direc-
tion of the said respective officers, and they shall at all proper
times be accessible to the governor and the finance committee
of the senate and the ways and means committee of the house
of delegates.

1892, ch. 228, sec. 30.

30. The treasurer is authorized on the order of the board of
public works to obtain duplicate certificates for any bank stock
owned and held by the State when the original certificates have
been lost or misplaced; and when any duplicate certificates
have heretofore been issued to said treasurer on his application
in pursuance of an order of said board or may hereafter be
issued to him in pursuance of the order of said board, the
State does hereby agree and undertake to indemnify and save
harmless and free from loss the said banks so issuing or
having issued said duplicate certificates as aforesaid.