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DELEGATE PULLEN: I have a lot of them. I had
better bring them up later.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are there any further questions
of the Vice-Chairman? Delegate Grant.
DELEGATE GRANT: Delegate Adkins, I wanted to ask
you for clarification of an answer you gave to Delegate
Frederick. Did you indicate that if the Comptroller was
a constitutional office that the powers that would be
assigned to the Comptroller would be different than if it
was created by the legislature and was not mentioned in the
Constitution?
DELEGATE ADKINS: I suppose the answer to that
would depend on the nature of the constitutional provision
that this Convention ultimately wrote, if it wrote one. If
the present constitutional, or if the Comptroller were give-i
by the new Constitution the same powers which he now has,
my answer would be that, Yes, they would be different from
the powers which a legislatively selected or legislatively
authorized Comptroller would have, because he now is what
amounts to the chief fiscal officer for the State, and I
suggest that under the proposal of the Committee, which