§40-55  Warrants for certain mechanics andlaborers.  Warrants for payrolls of mechanics or laborers, or otherstemporarily employed, may be drawn in advance and before the wages as shown bythe payrolls have been receipted for by the mechanics, laborers, and others,but in every case the payrolls shall have indorsed thereon the approval of theofficer in whose department the liability, or expense, has been incurred, andalso the appropriation to which it is chargeable, and it shall also bespecially certified to by the officer directly incurring the expense, that theservices charged for have been faithfully performed; and further, thecomptroller shall take a receipt from the disbursing officer in whose favor thewarrant for the payrolls has been drawn, and shall retain the receipt until thepayrolls have been properly receipted and returned to the comptroller, andunder no circumstances shall the comptroller hold more than one receipt fromthe same disbursing officer for payrolls under the same item of appropriation.[L 1898, c 39, §11D; RL 1925, §1451; RL 1935, §578; RL 1945, §1582; RL 1955,§34-32; am L 1957, c 152, §1; HRS §40-55; gen ch 1985]