be added. SEC. 3. Whenever any money appropriated to any town from the Money forfeitstate treasury, for the support of public schools therein, shall have ed by towns, to been forfeited by such town, the same shall be added to said school fund, and shall forever remain a part thereof. be invested. SEC. 4. The general treasurer, with the advice of the governor, Additions to shall, from time to time, securely invest all sums of money hereby directed to be added to said fund, in the capital stock of some safe and responsible bank or banks within this state. Income to be SEC. 5. The income arising from said fund so invested, shall annually be appropriated for the support of public schools in the several appropriated towns. for support of schools. SECTION 1. Every person who shall hold a public office shall, upon leaving the same, deliver to his successor in office, or if there be no successor, to the secretary of state, all records, books, writings, letters, and documents kept or received by him in the transaction of his official business, and all moneys lying in his hands, which he shall have received as trusts of any person or persons, or otherwise in the course of his official business; and every such person who shall, without just cause, refuse, or neglect for the space of ten days, after request made in writing by any citizen of the state, to deliver as herein required such books, record, writing, letters, or documents, or to pay over such money to the person authorized to receive the same, shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding five years. SEC. 2. Every person, other than the lawful custodian thereof, who shall have in his possession, or under his control, any such record, book, letter, writing, or document as is designated in the first section of this chapter, and who shall without just cause refuse or neglect, for the space of ten days after request made in writing by any citizen of this state, to deliver such record, book, letter, writing, or document to the lawful custodian of the same, shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding five years. Officers to deliver official records, &c., to their successors in office. Penalty for neglect, &c., so to do. Penalty upon person other than the lawful custodian, for neglect, &c., to deliver official records, &c. Bonds of state, certain issues of, recognized and ordered paid. Coupon bonds, how exchanged for certificates of indebted ness. Bonds, coupons, and certificates, the SECTION 1. As many of the following issues of bonds, made under the authority of the general assembly of this state, given at the times herein recited, to raise money to defray the expenses incurred by this state in the suppression of the late rebellion against the United States, as have not been paid, shall continue to be valid outstanding obligations of the state, and they, with the interest thereon, shall be paid according to the tenor thereof; that is to say: 1. An issue of not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars of bonds, payable in ten years from October 1, A. D. 1861, authorized by an act passed August 10, 1861. 2. An issue of not exceeding one million two hundred thousand dollars in bonds, payable in twenty years from September 1, A. D. 1862, authorized by an act passed September 8, 1862. 3. An issue of not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars in bonds, payable in twenty years from April 1, 1863, authorized by an act passed March 12, 1863. 4. An issue of not exceeding one million dollars of bonds, payable in not exceeding thirty years from July 1, 1863, authorized by the act of June 19, A. D. 1863. 5. An issue of not exceeding one million dollars of bonds, authorized by the act of June 3, 1864, and payable in thirty years from date. 6. An issue of one million dollars in bonds, payable in thirty years from February 1, 1865, authorized by the act of February 3, A. D. 1865. SEC. 2. Whenever the holder of any coupon bond of this state shall surrender the same, with the unpaid coupons belonging thereto, to the general treasurer, and shall request that he shall issue a certificate of such surrender, the general treasurer shall make an entry of such surrender in a book, to be by him kept for that purpose, and he shall issue a certificate thereof to the person surrendering such bond, which certificate shall be duly recorded, and shall entitle the person receiving the same to receive the amount mentioned in such surrendered bond, and the interest thereon, at the times and places in the surrendered bond set forth, which certificate shall not be transferable but by order of the holder thereof, or of his personal representative made thereon, with notice to the general treasurer of such assignment; and upon the receipt of notice of such an assignment, the general treasurer shall enter a memorandum thereof upon the record of such certificate. SEC. 3. All bonds, and all coupons and certificates of indebtedness, which shall become the property of the state, shall be destroyed by the property of the general treasurer, by burning the same, in the presence of the secrestate, how detary of state, the state auditor, and attorney-general, who shall make, stroyed. sign, and deliver to the general treasurer a certificate containing the number, date of issue, and denomination of each bond, and of each coupon and certificate of indebtedness so destroyed, and of the time when destroyed, which certificate shall be, by the general treasurer, with his next report, transmitted to the general assembly. General treasurer, may pur chase bonds under direction SEC. 4. The general treasurer, under the direction of the governor, may purchase any of the bonds or certificates of indebtedness issued by the state, at a price not exceeding the par value thereof, with the interest which has accrued thereon, whenever there is any money in of governor. the treasury available for that purpose. bond. SECTION 1. The general treasurer shall, before entering upon the General treasduties of his office, give bond to the state, with sufficient sureties to urer to give the satisfaction of the governor, in the sum of forty thousand dollars, for the true and faithful discharge of the duty of his office, which bond shall be deposited with, and kept by, the secretary of state. Office, where kept. To keep evidences of property, and collect dividends. To receive and To deposit funds in bank. To keep account of moneys received and paid. To keep accounts with SEC. 2. The office of the general treasurer, which shall be in the city of Providence, shall be kept open daily, Sundays and holidays excepted, from ten and a half o'clock in the forenoon until two o'clock in the afternoon. SEC. 3. He shall personally attend to his official duties, he shall be the keeper of the certificates of stocks, notes, and other evidences of property belonging to the permanent school fund, Touro fund, and of all other property belonging to the state, or held by the state in trust; and he shall collect the dividends, interest, and income arising therefrom, and shall dispose of the same according to law. SEC. 4. A moneys due to the state shall be paid to the general treasurer, who shall be responsible for the safe keeping and proper disbursement thereof according to law. SEC. 5. He shall deposit, subject to his order, for the use of the state, all the funds of the state received by him, in such safe and responsible bank, either in Newport or Providence, or in the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company, as will give the greatest rate of interest therefor. SEC. 6. He shall keep a fair and correct account of all sums of money received into and paid from the treasury during the year. SEC. 7. He shall keep an account with each appropriation made by the general assembly, and with each salaried officer of the state, in which he shall credit the object for which the appropriation is made, each appropria- with the amount appropriated to the object, and shall charge such appropriation, with the payments made by him upon the same, upon the orders of the state auditor. tion and sala ried officer. To keep accounts with is sues of state bonds. To keep checkbooks. Payments from Report of receipts and expenditures to 'be made to the general assembly. SEC. 8. He shall keep an account with each issue of the state bonds, in which account the state shall be charged with the amount of the bonds contained at that time, and in which the numbers of the bonds shall be set forth; and the state shall be credited with the payments made on account of such bonds, indicating in such account the particular bonds by their numbers, to which such payments shall be made. SEC. 9. He shall keep check-books, within which there shall be suitable margins. The checks shall be numbered by numbers in the margins, corresponding with the numbers upon the checks, and he shall note in the margin, the date and amount of the check, the appropriation to which it shall be charged, and the person to whom it shall be issued, and shall settle his account with all banks and other depositaries holding state deposits, as often as once in each month. SEC. 10. He shall pay from the state treasury, money for the principal of and interest upon the bonded debt, upon the order of the state auditor, and for lawful orders upon him of the governor or of the state auditor, and for no other purpose, but no money shall be paid therefrom, unless the same shall have been appropriated to the purposes for which it is to be paid. SEC. 11. He shall present to the general assembly, on the second day of its May session, and of its adjourned session on the second day in Providence, from the May session, in every political year, a particular account of receipts and expenditures of public money, from what sources the state revenue shall have been derived, and what amount thereof from each source, and what amount from each town, and the citizens and corporations thereof, and on what account; and he shall also state how, and for what purposes, the money in the state treasury shall have been applied and expended, and what amount in each county, and for what purposes; and such accounts shall be made up to and include the thirtieth day of April and November in each year, and shall contain a statement of the condition of the state treasury on said day, and also a general summary of receipts, expenditures, and balances, transferred and on hand, during the preceding year; such accounts shall state the balance on hand, where the same is deposited, and the terms of the contract, under which the deposit is made. SEC. 12. He shall make a tabular statement to accompany such accounts, in which he shall classify the expenditures of the state under the following heads as nearly as may be: A. Salaries. B. Pay of members of the general assembly. C. Expenses of general assembly, including pay of officers. D. Courts, specifying the amount paid in each of the courts for the following purposes: 1. Attorneygeneral; 2. Jurors; 3. Witnesses; 4. Clerks; 5. Officers; 6. Other costs, waiters, and incidental expenses. E. Orders of the governor. F. Printing laws and schedules, and all printing ordered by the general assembly. G. Support of state prison. H. Support of the institutions at the state farm. I. Accounts allowed and paid out of money appropriated by the general assembly for the following purposes: 1. Repairs, furniture, and enlargement of the state prison; 2. do. of court houses; 3. do. of jails; 4. do. of bridges; 5. do. of other public works; 6. Expenses incurred by or on account of railroad commissioner; 7. Schools, including the normal school and teachers' institute and Providence reform school; 8. Amounts paid to the Butler hospital for the insane, and for support and education of deaf, dumb, idiotic, and blind persons; 9. Accounts allowed to jailers; 10. To justice courts; 11. To witnesses; 12. To officers for services in criminal cases; 13. Militia and military affairs; 14. Indian tribe; 15. Miscellaneous. SEC. 13. In the account of moneys received from the different courts, he shall state separately the amounts received from the following sources: 1. Entries; 2. Jury fees; 3. Other costs; 4. Taxes on clerk's fees; 5. Fines; 6. Miscellaneous; and he shall also state the amounts of revenue received from all other sources, under appropriate heads. Tabular state ment to accom pany report. Moneys received, to be appropriate heads. stated under contain statedebt. ment of bonded SEC. 14. Such accounts shall also contain a statement of the Accounts to bonded debt of the state, the amount of each issue outstanding, and the time when the said bonds mature and are payable, together with the gross amount of the annual interest thereon and the amount of interest paid, and the amount of the coupons due and unpaid, and of the bonds retired since the making of the last previous report. SEC. 15. He shall report at every May session, the receipts and expenditures on account of the permanent school fund and Touro fund, under appropriate heads, together with the state and amount of such funds, and how the same are invested. He shall also in such report state any other expenses particularly, under such heads as he may deem necessary for the better information of the general assembly. SEC. 16. He shall with such report, report all such sums of money as within his knowledge shall be due to the state from any person, corporation, or town, by virtue of any of the revenue laws; and what amount from each; and also report all such breaches or want of enforcement of the license law, or any other of the revenue laws of the state, by any person or town, as shall come to his knowledge, or as may in his opinion exist, whereby the state may be defrauded of any of its revenue. Receipts and expenditures school, deposit, and Touro funds. on account of General treas urer to report all sums due under the revenue laws. |