It shall be the duty of the state treasurer to state in the books of the treasury, separately and distinctly, the amount of money received by him on account of state taxes, debts, or on any account whatever for or on behalf of the state, and also an account of the sums he shall pay out of the same, so that the net produce of the whole revenue, and of every branch thereof, and the amount of disbursements and payments of the several demands on the treasury may clearly and distinctly appear.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 20, art. 4 (7); 1857, ch. 6, art. 53; 1871, § 153; 1880, § 240; 1892, § 4206; 1906, § 4754; Hemingway's 1917, § 7881; 1930, § 7162; 1942, § 4291.
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