Section 14

Section 14. That it shall be the duty of the auditor general, whenever he shall have reason to believe that any property shall be defeasibly held, and liable upon office found to accrue to the treasury, or that the income of any corporation or association, as aforesaid, shall exceed the limit allowed by law, to call upon any and all officers or trustees thereof, to make within thirty days a true return and exhibit of all their property, and the annual income thereof; and if no return be made within such time, or the same be unsatisfactory to him, it shall be further his duty, to cause to be filed a bill of discovery in the supreme court, or in any court of the proper county having equity jurisdiction, against the officers or trustees of any such corporation or association, which the defendants therein shall answer under the compulsion usual in such cases, and their answers may be used in any proceeding to assert the rights of the commonwealth.