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proportions. There are now twelve departments in the
office of the State Comptroller, very quickly those depart-
nents are the General Department, the License Bureau, the
Gasoline Tax Division, the Alcoholic Beverages Division,
the Income Tax Division, the Admissions Tax Division, the
Bureau of Revenue Estimates, the Retail Sales Tax Division,
the Central Payroll Division which handles the payroll
for 22,500 employees. Cigarette Tax Unit, the Data
Processing Division, and the Abandoned Property Division.
I think that order is the order in which those departments
were added to the Office of the Comptroller.
By law the Comptroller is the chief fiscal
officer of the State, the manager of the State's money.
He is charged, of course, with the collection of that
money and the management of the State's revenues and the
supervision and control of expenditures. One of the most
important functions of the Comptroller is to exercise a
check, a pre-check on the State's money as it is paid out.
When a voucher comes in from a department, the Controller
must and does check the voucher to ascertain whether it
is a matter which has been authorized by law or in the