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Executive Department. '''§ 143. Obstruction of examiner. Penalty.''' Every person who shall willfully obstruct or mislead the state examiner in the execution of his duties as hereby prescribed shall be subject to conviction and punishment therefor in the same manner as is now provided for the conviction and punishment of persons obstructing or hindering any officers, ministerial, judicial, or executive under the laws and authority of this state. And said examiner shall have full power and authority for the various purposes named to examine any books, papers, accounts, bills, vouchers and other documents, or property of any or all of the aforesaid state institutions, moneyed, banking, insurance, annuity, safe deposit, trust company and moneyed or insurance corporations and county or state officers and custodians of any county or state fund; also to examine under oath any or all trustees, managers, officers, or employees or agents of said institution and moneyed and savings corporations and other persons in the control of or doing business with said moneyed or savings institutions, and the county and state officers and custodians of county and state funds aforesaid. Said examiner is empowered to issue subpænas and administer oaths in the performance of his duties, and any person refusing access by said examiner to any such books or papers, or any trustee, manager, officer, agent, clerk, employee, or other person aforesaid, who shall obstruct such access or refuse to furnish any required information, or who shall in any manner hinder a thorough examination required by this article of the officers, state, moneyed, banking, insurance, annuity, safe deposit, trust companies and savings institutions, or pertaining to the county and state officers aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of felony and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars or imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of one year. And when necessary, the state examiner shall employ stenographers or clerical help, the expense incurred therefor to be collected by the examiner from the county or corporation in interest.

§ 144. Reports, contents of. The state examiner shall report to the governor the result of his examinations on the first Monday in November of each year; he must also make a report upon any particular matter at any time when required by the governor, and shall embody in such report an abstract of the condition and statistics of the several state institutions and the county and state finances ascertained by him, which report shall be printed to the number of five hundred copies and shall be included with other official reports in the volume of executive documents. The state examiner shall perform such other duties as shall be prescribed by law.

'''§ 145. Salary. Deputy. Penalty for malfeasance.''' The salary of the state examiner for all services rendered in any capacity whatever shall be two thousand dollars per year and his actual and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of his official duty. He is authorized with the approval of the governor to appoint a deputy who shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars and his actual and necessary expenses. The salary and expenses of the state examiner and his deputy shall be audited and paid in the same manner as the salary and expenses of other state officers.

§ 146. Official bond. The state examiner must official bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars.