ART. 19] APPROPRIATIONS TO CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. 493

Supervision of Expenditures of Corporations Receiving
Appropriations from the State.

1900, ch. 239, secs. 1 and 2.

41. All associations or incorporated institutions maintained,
for industrial, educational, medical, humane, military or chari-
table purposes, securing any appropriation from the State
treasury under the provisions of an act of the general assem-
bly, shall on or before the first day of February after said
appropriation or any part thereof shall have been received, and'
annually thereafter, as long as said association or incorpora-
tion shall continue a beneficiary of the State, file with the
comptroller a full and accurate account, giving, as far as the
said comptroller may consider practicable, an itemized state-
ment of how the said amount so received from the State has
been expended; said account to be sworn to by the president,
vice-president or treasurer of said association or institution or
commanding officer of such military organization. All appro-
priations made by the legislature to any of such associations
or institutions, if not so provided in the act making such,
appropriation, shall be payable one-half in the first fiscal year
wherein said appropriation is made and one-half in the next
fiscal year, and the comptroller is hereby instructed not to
draw his warrant for any payment until such an account of the
expenditures, to the full satisfaction of the said comptroller,
shall have been filed; provided, the said institution shall have
received an appropriation prior to the enactment of this sec-
tion; and the comptroller is hereby authorized, in his discre-
tion, for the purpose of informing himself of the expenditures
of said institutions, to cause an examination of their financial
affairs and management to be made.

Ibid. sec. 3.

42. No part of any appropriation made by the State to any
institution or association, the character of which is set forth in
the preceding section, shall be applied to the purchase of any
land or erection of any building, unless permission to purchase
such land or erect such building be directly given in the act
making such appropriation.