The state treasurer shall furnish to the governor, from time to time when required, a full and complete statement, in tabular form, of the situation of the public finances and full information touching the condition and proceedings of his office. The books of the treasurer shall, at all seasonable times, be open to the inspection of the governor and of the auditor, and the governor shall at all times be permitted to examine and count the money on hand.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 20, art. 4 (9); 1857, ch. 6, art. 58; 1871, § 158; 1880, § 245; 1892, § 4211; 1906, § 4759; Hemingway's 1917, § 7886; 1930, § 7167; 1942, § 4296.
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