4-9-16. Order of payment of warrants--Notice of sufficiency of funds to holders of registered warrants.All warrants upon the state treasurer shall be paid out of the fund on which they were drawn in the order of their presentation.All registered state warrants shall be paid in the order of their registration, and it shall be the duty of every such treasurer, as soon as money sufficient for the payment of such warrants is received to the credit of the particular fund upon which the same are drawn, to immediately notify, by mail, the persons in whose names the same are drawn or, if he shall receive written notice from some other person that he is the holder of any such warrant, then the treasurer shall notify such other person; and thereupon interest upon such warrants shall cease and the treasurer shall pay and cancel such warrants upon presentation thereof. Source: SL 1874-5, ch 74, §§1, 4; PolC 1877, ch 50, §§1, 4; CL 1887, §§1671, 1674; SL 1895, ch 186, §1; RPolC 1903, §§2251, 2254; SL 1913, ch 359; RC 1919, §§6973, 6976; SDC 1939, §55.2502.
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