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which an office s selected?
THE CHAIRMAN: As the Chair indicated, if the I
committee recommendation in its form submitted, not yet
acted upon, is approved, it would contain a section which
provides that the governor will appoint the heads of
principal departments. Under the present Constitutional
laws the governor is the head of a principal department.
If by your question you mean a comptroller
retaining that status, the answer is it would not be pos-
sible for the legislature to provide for the selection of
that person in any way different from that set out in the
i committee recommendation.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Malkus.
DELEGATE MALKUS: As I understand you, then, '
all the employees now under the Office of the Comptroller
would be under the control of the appointee of the governor?
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair did not say that.
The Chair would not agree with that statement.
The Constitutional provision in the committee
recommendation, as the Chair understands it, refers only
to the head of the department. I believe, although I am
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