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resolutions as herein ordered, and give bond, with two good and sufficient sureties, in the sum of five thousand dollars penalty, to be approved by the Secretary of State, conditioned for the entire, correct, and complete translation and service to be done as herein provided; and his account for such services, when certified by the Secretary of State, must be submitted to the Board of Examiners, and when allowed audited. by the Controller and paid by the Treasurer of State.

NOTE. This section is a necessity under the Const., Art. XI, Sec. 21. Stats. 1872, on pp. 891, 892, will be found a proposed amendment to supersede this necessity.

416. The Secretary of State, for services performed in his office, must charge and collect the following fees:

1. For a copy of any law, resolution, record, or other document or paper. on file in his office, twenty cents per folio.

2. For affixing certificate and seal of State, two dollars.

3. For filing articles of incorporation, five dollars. 4. For recording articles of incorporation, twenty cents per folio.

5. For issuing each certificate of incorporation, three dollars.

6. For receiving and recording each official bond, five dollars.

7. For each commission, passport, or other document signed by the Governor and attested by the Secretary of State (pardons excepted), five dollars.

8. For each patent for land issued by the Governor, if for less than one hundred and sixty acres, one dollar; and for each additional one hundred and sixty acres, or fraction thereof, one dollar.

9. For searching records and archives of the State, one dollar.

But no member of the Legislature or State officer

can be charged for any search relative to matters appertaining to the duties of their offices; nor must they be charged any fee for a certified copy of any law or resolution passed by the Legislature relative to their official duties. All fees collected by him must be paid into the State Treasury at the end of each month, and constitute the State Library Fund.

NOTE. See note to Sec. 408, ante, and Stats. 1872, p. 392.

Secretary.

417. The annual salary of the Secretary of State Salary of is four thousand dollars.

NOTE.-See Sec. 1575, Penal Code Cal., and Sec. 684,

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Deputy.

418. The annual salary of the Deputy Secretary of Salary of State is twenty-four hundred dollars.

Clerk.

419. The annual salary of the Clerk for the Secre- Salary of tary of State is twenty-four hundred dollars.

420. The annual salary of each Recording Clerk for the Secretary of State is eighteen hundred dollars.

Salary of
Clerks.

Recording

421. The annual salary of the General Clerk for Salary of the Secretary of State is eighteen hundred dollars. Clerk.

General

Special

422. The Secretary of State during each legislative salary of year, from January until July, inclusive, may employ Clerks. two Special Clerks, at a monthly salary not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars each.

423. The Secretary of State must execute an official Official bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars.

NOTE.-See Secs. 947 to 957, post, inclusive, as to the bond. The preceding Article is based upon statutes as follows: 1854, pp. 117, 118, 177; 1868, pp. 447, 448, 660; 1866, pp. 103, 156, 270; 1870, pp. 373, 517; 1861, p. 413; 1863, p. 703.

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ARTICLE VI.

General duties of.

CONTROLLER.

SECTION 433. General duties of.

434. Certificate of settlement.

435. Special duties connected with School Fund.
436. Order in which warrants must be drawn.

437. Proceedings against defaulters.

438. Salary.

439. Salary of Deputy Controller.

440. Salary of Bookkeeper.

441. Salary of Clerks.

442. Official bond.

433. It is the duty of the Controller:

1. To superintend the fiscal concerns of the State;

2. To report to the Governor, on the second Monday in October next preceding each regular session of the Legislature, a statement of the funds of the State, its revenues, and of the public expenditures during the two preceding fiscal years, together with a detailed estimate of the expenditures to be defrayed from the Treasury for the two ensuing fiscal years, specifying therein each object of expenditure, and distinguishing between such as are provided for by permanent or temporary appropriations and such as must be provided for by a new statute, and suggesting the means from which such expenditures are to be defrayed;

3. To accompany his biennial report with tabular statements, showing: 1. The amount of each appropriation for the two preceding fiscal years, the amounts expended, and the balance, if any; 2. The amount of. revenue chargeable to each county for such years, the. amount paid, and the amount unpaid or due therefrom;

4. When requested, to give information in writing to either House of the Legislature relating to the fiscal affairs of the State or the duties of his office;

5. To suggest plans for the improvement and management of the public revenues;

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6. To keep and state all accounts in which the State General is interested;

7. To keep an account of all warrants drawn upon the Treasurer, and a separate account under the head of each specific appropriation, showing at all times the unexpended balance of such appropriation;

8. To keep an account between the State and the Treasurer, and therein charge the Treasurer with the balance in the Treasury when he came into office, and with all moneys received by him, and credit him with all warrants drawn on and paid by him;

9. To keep a register of warrants, showing the Fund upon which they are drawn, the number, in whose favor, for what service, the appropriation applicable to the payment thereof, when the liability accrued, and a receipt from the person to whom the warrant is delivered;

10. To audit all claims against the State in cases where there is [are] sufficient provisions of law for the payment thereof;

11. To examine and settle the accounts of all persons indebted to the State, and to certify the amount to the Treasurer, and upon presentation and filing of the Treasurer's receipt therefor to give such person a discharge and charge the Treasurer therewith;

12. In his discretion to require any person presenting an account for settlement to be sworn before him, and to answer, orally or in writing, as to any facts relating to it;

13. To require all persons who have received any moneys belonging to the State and have not accounted therefor to settle their accounts;

14. In his discretion to inspect the books of any person charged with the receipt, safe keeping, or disbursement of public moneys;

15. In his discretion to require all persons who have received moneys or securities, or have had the

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disposition or management of any property of the State of which an account is kept in his office, to render statements thereof to him; and all such persons must render such statement at such times and in such form as he may require;

16. To direct and superintend the collection of all moneys due the State, and institute suits in its name. for all official delinquencies in relation to the assessment, collection, and payment of the revenue, and against persons who by any means have become possessed of public money or property and fail to pay over or deliver the same, and against all debtors of the State; of which suits the Courts of Sacramento County have jurisdiction, without regard to the residence of the defendants;

17. To draw warrants on the Treasurer for the payment of moneys directed by law to be paid out of the Treasury; but no warrant must be drawn unless authorized by law and upon an unexhausted specific appropriation provided by law to meet the same. Every warrant must be drawn upon the Fund out of which it is payable, and specify the service for which it is drawn, when the liability accrued, and the specific appropriation applicable to the payment thereof;

18. To furnish the State Treasurer with a list of warrants drawn upon the Treasury;

19. To have printed and forwarded to the Auditor of each county blank State licenses;

20. To authenticate with his official seal all drafts and warrants drawn by him, and all copies of papers issued from his office;

21. To perform the duties of a member of the State Board of Equalization, and of the State Board of Tide Land Commissioners, and such other duties as are prescribed by law.

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NOTE. Controller is an executive officer. See Const., Art. V, Sec. 18; see, also, Meloney vs. Whitman, 10 Cal., p. 38; Brooks vs. Meloney, 15 Cal., p.

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