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budget. If he finds that it has been so authorized, he
then checks the funds in that account, and if the funds
are in the bank, he then approves the voucher and sends
it over to the State Treasurer for payment.
That pre-checking on the actual outgo of the
money before it is paid by the Treasurer is, the Minority
submits, a highly important function of the State Treasurer
and under the present setup of the law, the State Comptrol-
ler also supervises the auditing of the accounts of the
departments in the State government.
The auditor, of course, having been appointed
I by the Governor. The law provides that he shall report
I to the Comptroller, and the Comptroller shall supervise
it
his work. One of the most Important functions, of course,
of the Comptroller has been to sit on and be a member of
the Board of Public Works. We submit that that function
is extremely important; the Board of Public Works that we
have heard so much about today is the most important board
in the State and is the last check on whether or not the
State's money or any programs authorized by the legislature
are to be committed, contracts given in accordance with the