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DELEGATE SYBERT: You understand if the word "not"
is stricken out of the committee report, the second para-
graph of it, that at the proper time when the committee
recommendations themselves on the blue paper come before th?
Convention Committee, proper amendments will be offered delin-
eating the powers and duties of the Comptroller?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Byrnes.
DELEGATE BYRNES: I appreciate that remark, and
I also wanted to clarify in my own remarks whether or not
these matters were within the executive power that we are
vesting in the Governor. Another problem I had. Judge Sy-
bert, is really trying to define in my own mind precisely wiat
the functions of the Comptroller are in the policy-making
area. As I understand your comments, he is responsible for
what you call the pre-payout checks which I presume are don?
by the merit system employees rather than the Comptroller him-
self on a daily basis; and you suggested that the auditor
reports to the Comptroller, and that has been vested in the
legislature. There is also the legislatively delegated and
quasi-judicial powers. Would you say that an appointed Comp-
troller could do that less ably than an elected Comptroller
namely the legislatively delegated power and