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SEC. 2.¹⁶⁰ The Comptroller shall have the general
superintendence of the fiscal affairs of the State; he shall
digest and prepare plans for the improvement and man-
agement of the revenue, and for the support of the pub-
lic credit; prepare and report estimates of the revenue
and expenditures of the State; superintend and enforce
the prompt collection of all taxes and revenues; adjust
and settle, on terms prescribed by law, with delinquent
collectors and receivers of taxes and State revenue; pre-
serve all public accounts; and decide on the forms of
keeping and stating accounts. He, or such of his depu-
ties as may be authorized to do so by the Legislature,
shall grant, under regulations prescribed by Law, all
warrants for money to be paid out of the Treasury, in
pursuance of appropriations by law, and countersign all
checks drawn by the Treasurer upon any bank or banks
in which the moneys of the State, may, from time td
time, be deposited. He shall prescribe the formalities of
the transfer of stock, or other evidence of the State
debt, and countersign the same, without which such evi-
dence shall not be valid; he shall make to the General
Assembly full reports of all his proceedings, and of the
slate of the Treasury Department within ten days after
the commencement of each session; and perform such
other duties as shall be prescribed by law.

SEC. 3.¹⁶¹ The Treasurer shall receive the moneys of
the State, and, until otherwise prescribed by law, depos-
it them, as soon as received, to the credit of the State,
in such bank or banks as he may, from time to time,
with the approval of the Governor, select (the said bank
or banks giving security, satisfactory to the Governor,
for the safekeeping and forthcoming, when required of
said deposits), and he or such of his deputies as may be
authorized to do so by the Legislature shall disburse the
same for the purposes of the State according to law,
upon warrants drawn by the Comptroller, or his duly
authorized deputy, and on checks countersigned by the
Comptroller, or his duly authorized deputy. The Legis-
lature may prescribe, by law, for the Treasurer to dis-
burse the moneys of the State, by a system other than
by the use of checks. The Treasurer or such of his depu-
ties as may be authorized to do so by the Legislature
shall take receipts for all moneys paid from the Trea-
sury Department; and receipt for moneys received by
him shall be endorsed upon warrants signed, by the
Comptroller, or such deputy as may be authorized to
do so by law, without which warrants, so signed, no ac-
knowledgment of money received into the Treasury
shall be valid; and upon warrants issued by the Comp-
troller, or his duly authorized deputy, the Treasurer
shall make arrangements for the payment of the interest
of the public debt, and for the purchase thereof, on ac-
count of the sinking fund. Every bond, certificate, or
other evidence of the debt of the State shall be signed
by the Treasurer, Chief Deputy Treasurer, or a Deputy
Treasurer, and countersigned by the Comptroller, Chief
Deputy Comptroller, or a Deputy Comptroller; and no
new certificate or other evidence intended to replace an-
other shall be issued until the old one shall be delivered

l⁶⁰ Amended by Chapter 632, Acts of 1973, ratified Nov. 5, 1974.
i⁶' Amended by Chapter 133, Acts of 1929, ratified Nov. 4,
1930; Chapter 56, Acts of 1950, ratified Nov. 7, 1950; Chapter
7, Acts of 1965, ratified Nov. 8, 1966; Chapter 632, Acts of
1973, ratified Nov. 5, 1974.

Article VI

to the Treasurer, and authority executed in due form
for the transfer of the same filed in his office, and the
transfer accordingly made on the books thereof, and the
certificate or other evidence cancelled; but the Legisla-
ture may make provisions for the loss of certificates, or
other evidences of the debt; and may prescribe, by law,
the manner in which the Treasurer shall receive and
keep the moneys of the State.

SEC. 4. The Treasurer shall render his Accounts,
quarterly, to the Comptroller; and shall publish, month-
ly, in such newspapers as the Governor may direct, an
abstract thereof, showing the amount of cash on hand,
and the place, or places of deposit thereof; and on the
third day of each regular session of the Legislature, he
shall submit to the Senate and House of Delegates fair
and accurate copies of all Accounts by him, from time
to time, rendered and settled with the Comptroller. He
shall, at all times, submit to the Comptroller the inspec-
tion of the money in his hands, and perform all other
duties that shall be prescribed by Law.

SEC. 5. The Comptroller shall qualify, and enter on
the duties of his office, on the third Monday of January
next succeeding the time of his election, or as soon
thereafter as practicable. And the Treasurer shall quali-
fy within one month after his appointment by the Leg-
islature.

SEC. 6.¹⁶² Whenever during the recess of the Legisla-
ture charges shall be preferred to the Governor against
the Comptroller or Treasurer, for incompetency, malfea-
sance in office, willful neglect of duty, or misappropria-
tion of the funds of the State, it shall be the duty of the
Governor forthwith to notify the party so charged, and
fix a day for a hearing of said charges; and if, in the
case of the Comptroller, from the evidence taken, under
oath, on said hearing before the Governor, the said alle-
gations shall be sustained, it shall be the duty of the
Governor to remove the Comptroller and appoint an-
other in his place, who shall hold the office for the
unexpired term of the Comptroller so removed. Howev-
er, if, in the case of the Treasurer, from the evidence
taken under oath in the hearing before the Governor,
the allegations are sustained, it is the duty of the Gov-
ernor to remove the Treasurer, and the Deputy Treasur-
er shall act as Treasurer until the next regular or ex-
traordinary session of the Legislature following the
appointment, whereupon a successor shall be chosen by
the Legislature who shall serve for the unexpired term
of the Treasurer so removed.

ARTICLE VII.

SUNDRY OFFICERS.
SECTION I.¹⁶³ County Commissioners shall be
elected on general ticket of each county by the qualified
voters of the several counties of the State; their number

l⁶² Amended by Chapter 640, Acts of 1975, ratified Nov. 2,
1976.
"'Amended by Chapter 255, Acts of 1890, ratified Nov. 3,
1891; Chapter 99, Acts of 1956, ratified Nov. 6, 1956; Chapter
681, Acts of 1977, ratified Nov. 7, 1978.