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7. Office at Annapolis. 8. Assistant clerks — their salaries. 9. Annual statement of State's finances. 10. Annual estimate of receipts and expenses. 11. Books showing revenues and ex- penditures. 12. Records of accounts. 13. Records of all official proceed- ings. 14. Reports from public officers. 15. Account with the treasurer. 16. Monthly examination of treas- urer's books. 17. Warrants; how to be drawn. 18. No blank warrants to be signed. 19. Claims against State; how pre- sented. 20 Deduction of sums due to State. 21 Suits against defaulters. 22. Comptroller's accounts prima facie evidence. 23. Statement before general elec- tion to officers in arrears. Publication of names of de- faulters. 24. Publication by banks of un- claimed dividends and de- posits. 25. Shall prepare blank licenses for clerks. 26. Sunday to be excepted from operation of ordinary licenses. 27. Stamp on licenses. 28. Blank protests. 29. Statement to public printer of receipts and expenses.

30. Adjustment of claims of State's attorneys 31. Annual setting apart for sinking fund. 32. Investment of surplus revenues. 33. Cancellation of State debts so purchased. 34. Warrant on treasurer for such purchases. 35. Apportionment of school fund. 36. Appropriation for colored schools. 37. Authorized to settle claims of the State against certain pub- lic officials which accrued prior to 1st January, 1902. Provisos. Approval of governor and treasurer necessary. 38. Employment of attorneys. 39 Compensation of attorneys, 40 Evidence of compromises to be preserved. Supervision of Expenditures of Corporations Receiving Appropriations from the State. 41. Charitable and other corpora- tions receiving State appro- priations shall annually file with the comptroller itemized statement, showing how such appropriations have been spent. Comptroller to examine their financial condition. 42. No part of appropriation to be applied to purchase of land or erection of buildings.

1888, art 19, sec. 1. 1860, art. 22, sec. 1. 1852, ch. 172, sec. 3.

1853, ch. 403.

1. The comptroller shall file his bond and qualify, by making
the declaration and taking the oath required by the constitution
and laws, before the governor, on or before the second Wednes-
day of January next ensuing his election; on which said
second Wednesday of January the term of his office Shall
commence.
Thomas v. Owens, 4 Md. 189.