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Code,

how

Ib. Const.

shall not be taken up for consideration until the next session of the General Assembly.

The Code thus prepared by the Commissioner shall be declared law. declared by the General Assembly, in an Act passed accordArt. VI, 5. ing to the forms in the Constitution of 1895 for the enactment of laws, to be the only general statutory law of the State, and no alterations or additions to any of the laws therein contained shall be made except by Bill passed under the formalities required in the said Constitution.

CHAPTER V.

Reports and Documents and Committees to Examine State
Offices and Penal and Charitable Institutions.

Section 66. The Comptroller General and all other Time for officers required by law to report annually to the General ports to GenAssembly shall make such report on or before the twentieth bly. day of January in each year.

Sec. 67. All State officers are required to place their When Reports to be Reports in the Printer's hands by the tenth day of January, hianded to except the Comptroller General and State Treasurer, who shall place their reports in the Printer's hands on the twentieth day of January, and the Printer is required to have Reports printed and ready for delivery on the day of the

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Forfeiture.

Persons disbursing public

meeting of the General Assembly, and on his failure to have such Reports ready he shall forfeit five dollars ($5.00) per day on each Report delayed: Provided, That the Public Printer shall not be subject to said forfeiture when the State officers do not place their Reports in the Printer's hands on the day required.

Sec. 68. Every person authorized to disburse any funds money must for the State shall publish in some newspaper of general publish. circulation in the County in which such disbursement is Civ. '02, § 67. authorized to be made, a monthly statement of all funds received and the date of such receipt, and of all funds paid out, to whom, and on what account.

Persons hav

ing distribu

money must

Sec. 69. All persons having the distribution of public tion of public money shall quarterly, to wit, on the last days of October, report quar- January, April and July, in each and every year, render to troller Gen- the Comptroller General an account setting forth the funds committed to them, respectively, and the disbursement of

terly to Comp

eral.

Civ. '02, § 68. them.

cers having

indebtedness

report to

Public offi- Sec. 70. All public officers having in their possession the evidences of evidences of any debts due to the State shall, on the last day to State must of December in every year, furnish the Comptroller General Comptroller with a statement of all such debts, showing the names of General. the debtors, the amounts of the debts, the interest, the payments made, and the balance due to the State. And in case of failure on the part of any public officer to furnish the Comptroller with the statement aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of two hundred dollars, to be recovered in any Court having competent jurisdiction.

Civ. '02, § 69.

ComptrollerGeneral

to

Sec. 71. The Comptroller General shall make a statemake report ment of all debts due the State and lay it before the General Assembly of Assembly with his Annual Report.

to General

all debts due State.

Secretary of

Sec. 72. The Secretary of State shall annually prepare, Civ. '02, § 70. cause to be printed, and submit to the General Assembly a true abstract from the certificates deposited with him by corporations formed under the law regulating the formation State to re- of corporations. Said abstract shall contain, under proper eral Assembly headings, the corporate name of said corporation, the date corporations of its charter, the purposes for which it was incorporated, general laws. the names of its corporators, its location and amount of Civ. '02, § 71. capital stock, together with such remarks as he may deem

port to Gen

abstract of

formed under

necessary; said abstract shall be published as an appendix

to the Acts and Joint Resolutions of the session of the Legislature to which such abstract is submitted, and the names of all corporations therein contained shall be included in the index to the said Acts and Joint Resolutions.

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Annual Report of State dent of Edu

General Superintenmanner cation.

Civ. '02, § 72.

Sec. 73. The State Superintendent of Education shall make his report through the Governor to the Assembly at each regular session thereof in the required by law. Sec. 74. It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent, State Superof Education to consolidate the reports received from the consolidate County Superintendents of Education, and to forward them County Superto the General Assembly at its next regular session.

intendent to

reports of intendents and forward them to Gen

bly.

Civ. '02, § 73.

Annual re-.

Sec. 75. The Directors of the State Penitentiary shall eral Assemmake an annual report to the Governor, on or before the first day of January in each year, of the state and condition of the prison, the convicts confined therein, of the money port of Direc expended and received, and, generally, of all the proceed- State Penitenings during the last year, to be laid before the General Assembly.

tors of the

tiary.

Civ. '02, § 74.

port of Attor

Sec. 76. The Attorney General shall annually make a Annual rereport to the General Assembly of the cases argued, tried, or ney-General. conducted by him in the Supreme Court and Circuit Courts Civ. '02, § 76. during the preceding year, with such other information in relation to the criminal laws, and such observations and statements, as, in his opinion, the criminal jurisdiction and the proper and economical administration of the criminal law warrant and require.

Annual re

port of Re

sane.

Civ. '02, § 77.

ers of the

Sec. 77. It shall be the duty of the Regents of the State Hospital for the Insane to report annually to the Legisla- gents of the State Hospiture the state and condition of the institution, fully and tal for the Inparticularly; and they shall also annually report to the Comptroller-General the amount of income of said institution, and the amount of expenditures, and the items thereof. Sec. 78. The Commissioners of the Deaf and Dumb and Commissionthe Blind shall annually report to the Legislature an exact Dumb and the statement of their various proceedings during the past year, Blind to reshowing precisely how they disbursed the money expended, civ. 02, § 77. the names of the persons who have received the bounty, the ages and places of residence of such persons, and information as to their progress, which statement shall be accompanied by the vouchers of all sums expended.

port annually.

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Accounts of

be examined

and February

Sec. 79. The accounts of the Treasurer of the State shall Treasurer to be, annually, closed on the thirtieth day of December, and in January shall be examined during the months of January and Febannually, by ruary in each year, by a Joint Committee, consisting of one mittee of Sen-member of the Senate and two of the House of Representaate and House. tives, to be appointed by a Concurrent Resolution of the two Houses of the General Assembly, at the session previous to said time of examination in each year.

Joint Com

Civ. '02, § 78.

of Treasurer's

made.

Civ. '02, 79.
Ib.

Examination Sec. 80. Such Committee shall examine the accounts, the books; how vouchers relating to all moneys received into and paid out of the Treasury during the year ending on the thirtieth of December preceding such examination, and shall certify and report to the General Assembly at its next session after the said thirtieth day of December the amount of moneys received into the Treasury during such year; the amount of moneys paid out of it during the same period by virtue of warrants drawn on the Treasury by the ComptrollerGeneral or any other officer; the amount of moneys received by the Treasurer who shall be in office at the time of such examination when he entered upon the exercise of the duties of his office; and the balance in the Treasury on the thirtieth day of December preceding such examination. They shall also report as to the operations of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, including the moneys received and disbursements made by them.

Examination of accounts of

officers.

Sec. 81. The Joint Committee of the General Assembly, certain State the duty of which is to examine the accounts of the State Civ. '02, § 80. Treasurer, Comptroller-General and the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, shall begin the examination of said accounts as soon as practicable after the end of each quarter of the year.

Committee to examine books

charitable in

Sec. 82. The accounts, vouchers and books of the penal of penal and and charitable institutions shall be examined during the stitutions month of December of each year by a Joint Committee of appointed. one Senator, who shall be recommended by the Senate ComCiv. 102, § 81. mittee on Charitable Institutions, and two members of the

when and how

House of Representatives, who shall be recommended by the louse Committee on State Hospital for the Insane, to be appointed by a Concurrent Resolution of the two houses of the General Assembly at the session previous to said time of examination in each year.