Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1861-12-18
F. B. SATTERTHWAITE, Chm'n.
AN ORDINANCE

For continuing the Board created by IN Ordinance
Of this Conrention, passed the Sth day Of June
1861, entitled, An Ordinance 10 pro0ids for
for the appointment of u Board Of Cluims," and
for entarging the POscers and duties of said
Board.
l. BE it ordained By this Convention, and it
AZ hereby ordained By the authority Of the same,
That the above rec;ed ordinance, and the board
thereby created, be, and the same are hereby con-
tinued and extended until the lst day of January,
which shall lie in the year one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty-three, subject however to any pro-
vision hereafter made on the subject by this Con-
venton previous to the time mentioned.
.. BE it further ordained That besides, and in
addition to the duties conferred ard enjoined by
said ordinance, the said Board shall have power,
and it shall be their duty to examine and pass upon
all accounts for expenditures made, or responsible
ties incurred or allowances claimed by any and
ecery dsbursing agent which have not already been
finally settled and allowed at the Treasury accord
ing to existing law, and no such account shall here
after be settled, GLL01ed paid at the Treasury,
unless, and until the same shall have first been
passed upon, and allowed and certified by the said
Board, and when on the examination of any such
claim, of any contract made, the Board shall be
satisfied that any disbursing officer or agent of the
State shall have been guilty of any fraud, PecutG
ton or other dedsance in his said oc. agency,
or where any such officer agent shall fail to &C
count for, and pay into the Treasury, or unto the
person persons entitled to receive the same, all
such funds of the State as in virtue Of his office or
agency he ought to account for and pa over, it
shall be the duty of the Board to report the same
to the Governor, who shall forthwith dismiss the
defaulting officer or agent from his said Office
agency; and the board shall also notify the At.
torney General thereof whose duty it shall be to
bring suit for the recovery of all balances due, and
to institute proceedings by way of indictment or
otherwise for the punishm ent of such officer or
agent and the Superior Court o. law or Court Of
Equity for Wake county shall have jurisdiction Of
such proceedings, according to the nature thereof
3. Be IL further ordained, That for the making
of full investigation of all cases under the I'd Sec
ton of this ordinance for the discovery Of any fraud
peculatiOn or mdedSance and for the ascertainment
of the true state any account or claim the Board
shall have power to compel the attendance OF wit
nesses, the production Of papers, and to examine
not only the witnesses bnt any such officer or agent
upon interrogatories, either verbal or written, as
the Board may deem proper, and to compel answer
thereto by process contempt as is usual IN courts
of record of common law jurisdiction.
T. Be it further Orddined That all disbursing
officers and agents. entrusted with the care and ex
pendture of the funds of the State whose accounts
and dealings shall not have already been finally set
tied according to existing laws, shall make quarterly
reports and exhibits of their dealings and transac
tions ther Elm to the said Board with the vouchers
belonging thereto at such time in each quarter as
the said Board may appoint by notice to the said
officer or agent in writing, and the said officer or
agent so notified shall attend before said Board from
day to day, to give such explanations, written or
verbal, as the said Board may require, and in all
things to submit to and comply with such directions
as the said Board may make touching the examin-
ing auditing and passing of such their accounts,
and if any such officer agent shall neglect or re-
fuse to perform anything made his duty in the pre-
misses, he shall be reported by the Board to the Gov
agent from his said office agency and the accounts
or claims of such officer or agent, shall not oe al