ties of.

SECT. 25. He shall have the custody of all records, deeds, instru- Land ments, plans, maps, charts, surveys, and other documents, relating to Resolves, said property or appertaining to the lands in Maine, and safely keep the 1859, 103. same in the land office at the state house; he may make and certify copies thereof, and shall keep said office open at stated hours, as public convenience may require.

SECT. 26. All sales, contracts, leases, deeds, and instruments, made by him, shall be approved by the governor and council and recorded in the records of the land office, and without such approval and record, the same shall be of no effect.

SECT. 27. He shall annually report to the legislature in detail all sales, leases, contracts, and other transactions, of said office for the previous year, and such other facts relating to said office and property as may be necessary or useful.

MATTERS OF FINANCE.

sales, &c., by,

to be approved Resolves.

by governor,&c.

1859, 103.

to make report to legisla

ture.

See Ch. 4.

Public officers

to make and submit esti

mates to speak1858, 158, § 1.

er of house.

SECT. 28. Every public officer or board having charge of any department of the public service requiring an expenditure of money from the state treasury, other than the payment of salaries, shall on or before the fifteenth day of January in each year, submit in writing to the speaker of the house of representatives, a detailed estimate of the sums which will be necessary for the maintenance of the department for the current year. SECT. 29. Every public officer or board having charge of the dis- Officers disburbursement of money, appropriated from the ordinary revenue or from sing money to the income of any funds belonging to or under the charge of the common- or. wealth, shall annually in the first week of January, report in detail to 1859, 221, § 2. the auditor, in such form as he shall prescribe, all expenditures made by them, and the objects to which such expenditures have been applied.

report to audit

ury only upon

SECT. 30. No money shall be paid from the treasury, but upon the Money to be warrant of the governor drawn in accordance with an appropriation in paid from treassome act or resolve passed within the same political year, except for warrant of the payments required on account of the principal or interest of a public fovernor, &c. debt, or for the salaries of the judges of the supreme judicial court, and 1858, 1, §§ 1, 2. of the governor, as established by standing laws. Said principal and interest shall be paid when due, and said salaries in the same manner as if a specific appropriation therefor were included in a separate law passed each year. No warrant shall be drawn for the payment of any account or demand except for the pay rolls of the council, senate, and house of representatives, unless the same is certified by the auditor.

propriations

but not after

SECT. 31. The preceding sections shall not prevent the payment from Balances of apthe treasury in any year, to a person to whom the same is due, of any may be paid in appropriation or unexpended balance of an appropriation made in the succeedingyear, preceding year. If such an appropriation or balance shall not be called wards. for by the person to whom it is due, or shall not be applied to the objects 1858, 1, § 3. for which it was designed, within the political year in which it is made, or the succeeding year, it shall revert to the general treasury, and shall not afterwards be paid out, except upon a new appropriation.

persons having

SECT. 32. No appropriation law shall be construed to require any Payments to be payments to a person with whom the state has an unadjusted account. withheld from But the governor, upon receiving satisfactory information that any unadjusted acmoney is illegally withholden from the state by such person, shall instruct 1858, 11, § 2. the treasurer to withhold all payments of money to him while such 1858, 158, § 13. default continues.

SECT. 33. Payments authorized by laws appropriating money shall be made from the ordinary revenue, if no other provision is expressly made therefor. Cash from the ordinary revenue on hand at the beginning of each year, shall be carried to the account of the ordinary revenue of that year.

SECT. 34. All notes for money borrowed in anticipation of the reve

counts, &c.

to be made from ordinary

revenue, &c. Cash at begin1858, 11, § 8. 1858, 158, §§ 10,

ning of year.

13.

Notes, how signed, &c. Resolves, 1855, 13.

Payments of interest, &c.

1858, 158, § 17.

of salaries,&c.

1858, 158, § 13. 1859, 272, § 4.

nue, shall be signed by the treasurer, approved by the governor, and countersigned by the auditor.

SECT. 35. The interest on temporary loans to the state from banks, corporations, or individuals, shall be paid semi-annually, on the first days of April and October in each year.

SECT. 36. Salaries payable from the treasury shall be paid quarter1849, 186, § 12. yearly on the first days of April, July, October, and January, and shall be in full for all services rendered to the state by the persons to whom they are paid. No salary shall be paid to any person for a longer period than that during which he has been actually employed in the duties of the office. When a salary is diminished, no greater rate shall be paid by reason of any previous appropriation therefor. No person shall at the same time receive more than one salary from the state treasury.

Accounts for expenditures

SECT. 37. Accounts for expenditures incurred or services rendered under orders of under an order of either or both branches of the legislature, shall be approved by the presiding officer of the branch by which the same is passed, and thereupon the auditor shall audit and certify the same, and the governor may draw his warrant therefor. But no such order shall authorize the expenditure of more than one hundred dollars, unless a specific appropriation of a larger sum has been previously made.

legislature,
how approved,
&c.
Limitation of
amount.

1858, 158, § 11.
Resolves,
1857, 19.

"Incidental ex

penses."

1858, 11, § 5.

SECT. 38. The term "incidental expenses," when used in an appropriation, shall include expenses of postage, printing, and stationery. SECT. 39. An appropriation for a service or object for which a larger Less appropria- or different appropriation has been made in some previous act or resolve, shall supersede the other.

1858, 158, § 13.

1859, 272, § 5.

tion to super

sede larger.

1858, 11, § 6.

SECT. 40. Laws making appropriations for a specified year shall not be construed to prevent the application in the following year of any Appropriations unexpended balance, to the same objects.

1858, 158, § 13. 1859, 272, § 6.

for a specified

year.

1858, 158, § 15. Directions to

aries in incurring liabilities, &c.

1858, 11, § 7.

11.

SECT. 41. Public functionaries charged with the execution of any service for which an appropriation is made, shall use every effort to public function- accomplish the same for a less sum than the amount of the appropriation, when it can be done conformably to the interests of the state. No public functionary shall make purchases or incur liabilities in the name 1858, 155, $$ 13, of the commonwealth for a larger amount than that which has been appropriated by law for the service or object; and the state shall be subject to no responsibility for the acts of its servants and officers beyond the several amounts duly appropriated by law. But this section shall not prevent public officers or boards from continuing the several departments of service under their charge during the month of January, until the pleasure of the legislature is made known, at the rate of expenditure authorized by the appropriations for the preceding year.

Same subject. 1855, 158, § 14.

Improvements, &c., in public buildings, not

to be made with out an appropri

ation.

1859, 177, § 1.

Bills exceeding

be sworn to.

1859, 221, § 3.

SECT. 42. No public officer or board shall incur any new or unusual expense, make any permanent contract, increase any salary, or employ any new clerk, assistant or other subordinate, unless an appropriation sufficient to cover the necessary expense thereof has been previously made by the legislature.

SECT. 43. No permanent improvements, alterations, or additions, shall be made in any of the buildings belonging to the commonwealth, until specific descriptions of such intended changes, and estimates of the expenses thereof, have been submitted to the legislature, and special appropriations made therefor; but this shall not prohibit expenditures necessary for keeping said buildings and the grounds appurtenant thereto in good order and condition.

SECT. 44. Before any charges are paid in bills or schedules for articles fifty dollars to purchased, services rendered, or expenses incurred, for the commonwealth, except for salaries fixed by law or payments otherwise provided for, the auditor may, and where the amount exceeds fifty dollars shall, require affidavit to be made that such articles have been purchased, ser vices rendered, and expenses incurred. All original bills, and original

bills included in such schedules, shall, within one month after the money has been paid, be delivered to the auditor to be retained by him.

SECT. 45. No committee of the legislature shall incur any expendi- Committees not ture or liability in behalf of the state, after the close of the regular ses- unless, &c. to incur liability sion, unless there is a subsisting appropriation therefor; and the amount 1855, 158, § 12. of the expenditure or liability shall be limited by the appropriation.

for witness fees

SECT. 46. Any appropriation for fees of witnesses before committees Appropriation of the legislature, may be applied so far as necessary to pay the expense may be applied of taking depositions ordered or authorized by such committees. Bills to taking depofor such fees or expenses of depositions shall be approved and audited 1859, 221, § 1. as provided in section thirty-seven.

sitions.

of commission

governor and

SECT. 47. In cases not otherwise provided for, the compensation for Compensation the services of committees of the legislature appointed to act during ers, &c., to be the recess, and that of legal counsel and commissioners appointed by determined by the executive, shall be determined by the governor and council, who council. shall approve such claims before they are sent to the auditor of accounts. 1850, 143. SECT. 48. Commissioners and other public officers having jurisdiction Travelling exthroughout the commonwealth, to whom travelling expenses are allowed, fic officers. penses of pubshall receive for each mile actually travelled, not more than three and 1859, 221, § 7. one-half cents a mile each way, nor more than the amount actually expended.

SECT. 49. No bill of charges against the state shall be allowed and paid, unless it specifies the items.

Bills of charges

to contain items.

1852, 33.

Secretary, &c., legislature ac

entrenc

SECT. 50. The secretary, treasurer, auditor, land agent, and adjutantgeneral, shall lay before the legislature, at the commencement of the to lay before annual session, an account of the salaries and allowances received by them and their clerks, and all other expenses of their offices, for the penses, &c. preceding year, with a statement of the names and periods of service solves, 1810, of each clerk employed.

268.

stituted.

1852, 142, § 1.

SECTION 1. The governor, lieutenant-governor, and secretary of the Board, how concommonwealth, one person appointed from and by each agricultural society which receives an annual bounty from the state, and three other persons appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the council, shall constitute the state board of agriculture.

of members

SECT. 2. One-third of the appointed members of the board shall Tenure of office retire from office on the first Wednesday of February in each year, vacancies, how according to their appointments. The vacancies thus occurring shall be filled. filled by the governor and council, or the agricultural societies, as the 1852, 142, §§ 1, 2. offices were before filled, and the persons thus appointed shall hold their offices for three years from the expiration of the former terms. Other vacancies may be filled in the same manner for the remainder of the

Board to meet

at state house. compensation

to have no

except, &c. 1852, 142, § 4.

secretary, &c. 1852, 142, § 4. Resolves, 1854, 72. 1859, 46.

See Ch. 15, § 36.

Board to inves

tigate subjects

relating to ag

riculture, take

donations, &c. 1852, 142, § 3.

vacant terms. The present members of the board shall continue to hold their offices during the terms for which they are appointed.

SECT. 3. The board shall meet at the state house at least once in each year, and as much oftener as may be deemed expedient. No member thereof shall receive compensation from the state, except for personal expenses when engaged in the duties of the board."

SECT. 4. They may appoint and prescribe the duties of a secretary of the board, who shall receive a salary of two thousand dollars a year; and who at such times as the board approve may employ a clerk at a salary not exceeding six hundred dollars a year.

SECT. 5. They shall investigate such subjects relating to improvement in agriculture in this state as they think proper, and may take, hold in trust, and exercise control over, donations or bequests made to them for promoting agricultural education, or the general interests of husbandry. SECT. 6. They may prescribe forms for and regulate the returns forms, regulate required of the different agricultural societies, and furnish to the secre tary of each, such blanks as they deem necessary to secure uniform and reliable statistics.

to provide

returns, &c.

1853, 127, § 2.

to report to legislature. 1852, 142, § 4. See Ch. 4.

Secretary to publish abstracts, &c. 1847, 69, § 4. 1852, 142, § 4. may appoint agents, &c. agents to report to. 1859, 203, § 1.

SECT. 7. They shall annually on or before the fourth Wednesday of January, by their chairman or secretary, submit to the legislature a detailed report of their doings, with such recommendations and suggestions as the interests of agriculture may require.

SECT. 8. The secretary of the board shall in each year cause to be made and published for distribution, as full an abstract of the returns of the agricultural societies as he deems useful.

SECT. 9. He may appoint one or more suitable agents, to visit the towns in this state, under the direction of the board, for the purpose of inquiring into the methods and wants of practical husbandry, ascertaining the adaptation of agricultural products to soil, climate, and markets, encouraging the establishment of farmers' clubs, agricultural libraries, and reading-rooms, and of disseminating useful information in agricul ture by means of lectures or otherwise. Such agents shall annually in October make detailed reports to the secretary of the board.

23. Contracts above $300, to be made in writing 64. Sheriff and deputy not to act as attorney. afterposals issued, &c.