to be paid therefor, and the fractional part of the year, not less than one month or any number of months for which the same may be issued; and upon the requisition of the clerks of the several circuit courts, and of the court of common pleas, shall forthwith deliver to the said clerks the number and description of licenses required by them for one year, or the fractional parts of the year, terminating on the thirtieth of April then next ensuing, and shall take a receipt from the several clerk's therefor. 1888, art. 19, sec. 26. 1860, art. 22, sec. 23. 1847, ch. 193, sec. 2. 26. He shall have inserted in all ordinary licenses a clause specially excepting the Sabbath day, commonly called Sunday, from the operation of said licenses. Ibid. sec. 27. 1860, art. 22, sec. 24. 1858, ch. 269. 27. He shall procure a stamp with such design and description as in his judgment shall seem best adapted to its purpose, which stamp shall be used on all licenses issued from his office. Ibid. sec. 28. 1862, ch. 120. 28. He shall cause to be printed, in the forms heretofore used and sanctioned by law, blank protests of bills of exchange and promissory notes, and stamp the same with the same stamp used by him on all licenses issued from his office, and shall take receipts from the several notaries public for all such stamped protests at any time delivered to them. Ibid. sec. 29. 1860, art. 22, sec. 25. 1854, ch. 16. 29. He shall, after each regular session of the general assembly, furnish the printer of the laws with an accurate statement of the receipts and expenditures of the public money for the fiscal year; and it shall be the duty of the said printer to attach said statement to and publish the same with the laws passed by the general assembly at such sessions. Ibid. sec. 30. 1868, ch. 285. 30. He is authorized to adjust and settle the claims of any of the State's attorneys of the several counties and the city of Baltimore for appearance fees in civil cases due to them by the State, and for all fees similarly due for services rendered under the opinion of the attorney general in the matter of cases removed from said county or city for trial or otherwise, and to fix and determine the amount due to said State's attorneys, respectively, and to allow the same, and to issue his warrant upon the treasurer for the payment of such amounts, which said warrant the treasurer is authorized to pay. 1888, art. 19, sec. 31. 1872, ch. 276, sec. 3. 31. On the first day of July in every year, he shall set apart to the credit of the sinking fund the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, which, in addition to all sums otherwise accruing to the augmentation of the sinking fund, is hereby appropriated for the purpose of taking up the existing debt of this State; and he shall cause the same to be invested in stock or bonds of this State, purchased at par or less; and said bonds, after being cancelled, as directed in section 33, shall be credited to the sinking fund, and held by the treasurer, subject to the future action of the general assembly. Ibid. sec. 32. 1872, ch. 276, sec. 4. 32. Whenever in the judgment of the comptroller there shall be a surplus in the treasury over and above the amount necessary to meet the current expenses of the State, as provided by law, he shall cause the same to be invested in the bonds or certificates of debt of this State, purchased at par or less; and in all purchases of bonds or certificates hereby directed to be made, the treasurer shall give the preference to the overdue debt of the State; and the comptroller and treasurer may at any time require the said overdue debt or some class thereof which can be regulated and accurately described to be presented at the place where made payable, for payment, by giving not less than thirty days' notice to the holders of such overdue debt, that on a day named in said notice, interest on said overdue debt or class thereof will cease; and if said bonds or certificates so overdue and particularly described in said published notice be not presented for payment by said day, the payment of interest on the same shall cease, and no further payment of interest on the same shall be made. Ibid. sec. 33. 1872, ch. 276, sec. 5. 33. If the overdue bonds or certificates of the State shall not be procurable in sufficient amounts, the treasurer may invest the sum or sums mentioned in section 31 in any bonds or certificates of the State which may be offered for sale, at the best rates possible for the State; and all such bonds or certifi cates maturing at some future day, as may be purchased in pursuance of these provisions, shall be cancelled by the treasurer in the presence of the comptroller, by writing the word "cancelled" across the face of said bonds or certificates, with the date of said cancellation in red ink, and signing the name of the said treasurer thereto also in red ink; and said bonds or certificates shall then be held by the treasurer to the credit of the sinking fund, and the interest thereon shall accrue to said fund until such time as the general assembly may dispose of the said bonds or certificates. 1888, art. 19, sec. 34. 1872, ch. 276, sec. 6. 34. The comptroller is hereby directed to draw his warrant on the treasurer for the payment of the bonds or certificates so taken up or purchased. Ibid. sec. 35. 1878, ch. 91, sec. 1. 35. In making the apportionments required by article 77, title, Public Education, it shall be the duty of the comptroller to equalize, as far as may be possible, the sums to be apportioned, so as to apportion and distribute the same amount, as far as may be practicable, on the fifteenth day of June, the first day October, the first day of January, and the fifteenth day of May, in each year. Ibid. sec. 36. 1878, ch. 91, sec. 2. 36. Until otherwise expressly directed by law the comptroller shall charge to said fund and pay therefrom the annual appropriations that have been or may hereafter continue to be made for the education of colored children, and also with like appropriations for the support of the State normal school, for the colored normal school, and the expenses of the State board of education. Ibid. sec. 37. 1888, ch. 537. 1892, ch. 83. 1898, ch. 205. 1900, ch. 556. 1904, ch. 494. 1884, ch. 116, sec. 1. 37. The Comptroller is authorized and empowered to adjust and settle the claims of the State against all collectors, sheriffs, clerks of courts, registers of wills and other collectors or receivers of public moneys and their sureties, and against corporations and individuals who may be indebted to the State in all cases where said claims accrued prior to and including the year 1902, and whether said claims be in the form of judgment or otherwise; and for the purpose of closing all such cases the comptroller is fully authorized to compromise the same by abating the interest that has accrued, or any portion thereof, or any part of the principal debt, in his discretion, so as to best subserve the interest of the State, and shall grant discharge to said parties and their sureties upon the payment into the treasury of the amount required by him to be paid in settlement as aforesaid; the comptroller shall be satisfied, after thorough examinations into the claims, that the same could not be collected by the State by legal process; and further, that the governor and treasurer for the time being shall each approve, in writing, any such abatement before the same shall be effected; and provided, further, that no discharge or acquittance under this section shall be effective unless the party or parties to be benefited shall first pay the attorneys who shall have the case in hand the legal fees and all fees of clerks and sheriffs. 1888, art. 19, sec. 38. 1884, ch. 116, sec. 2. 38. For the purpose of bringing all unsettled balances due the State to a speedy settlement, the comptroller is directed to employ such attorney or attorneys as in his judgment will best subserve the interest of the State. Ibid. sec. 39. 1884, ch. 116, sec. 3. 39. In all cases where the comptroller shall require the services of an attorney or attorneys to assist him in executing section 37 of this article, he may allow such attorney or attorneys, as compensation, a commission of ten per cent. on any State claim such attorney or attorneys may collect or assist him in collecting, where the amount of such claim does not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, and a commission of five per cent. on all sums which such attorney or attorneys may collect or assist in collecting as aforesaid, where the claim exceeds the sum of five hundred dollars. Ibid. sec. 40. 1884, ch. 116, sec. 4. 40. Whenever any claim of the State shall be compromised or settled by the comptroller, without payment in full, he shall make and keep among the records of his office a statement of the evidence or facts upon which such settlement was made. 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 charitable purposes, securing any appropriation from the State treasury under the provisions of an act of the general assembly, 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 incorporation 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 statement 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 cammanding officer of such military organization. All appropriations 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 section; and the comptroller is hereby authorized, in his discretion, 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. |