Stenographer:

Edna O. Dempsey .. .. .. Annapolis
License Inspectors

Frank P. Bratten, Chief . . .. Pocomoke City
John H. Farlow, Assistant .. Salisbury
Thomas A. Gilleece, Assistant .. Hancock
Mathew A. Powers, Assistant Ellicott City
Messenger:
J. Philip Beall .. ...... Annapolis

The Comptroller is elected by the people for a term of two years
from the third Monday in January next ensuing his election, except
that the Comptroller elected in 1923 will serve for three years through
the terms of the Quadrennial Elections Amendment of 1922. The Comp-
troller appoints all officers in his own office.

The Comptroller is the head of the Division of Financial Review of
the Finance Department. He is directed to exercise supervision and.
direction over the State Auditor, the State Bank Commissioner, the State
Insurance Department, the State Tax Commission and the Central Pur-
chasing Bureau.

The Comptroller shall have the general superintendence of the fiscal
affairs of the State; he shall digest and prepare plans for the improve-
ment and management of the revenue, and for the support of the pub-
lic credit; prepare and report estimates of the revenue and expendi-
tures of the State; superintend and enforce the prompt collection of
all taxes and revenue; adjust and settle, on terms prescribed by law,
with deliquent collectors and receivers of taxes and State revenue;
preserve all public accounts; decide on the forms of keeping and slat-
ing accounts; grant, under regulations, prescribed by law, all warrants
for money to be paid out of the Treasury, in pursuance of appropria-
tions by law, and countersign all checks drawn by the Treasurer upon
any bank or banks, in which the moneys of the State may, from time
to time, be deposited; prescribe the formalities of the transfer of
stock, or other evidence of the State debt, and countersign the same,
without which such evidence shall not be valid; he shall make to the
General Assembly full reports of all bis proceedings, and of the state
of the treasury department, within ten days after the commencement
of each session; and perform such other duties as shall be prescribed
by law.

STATE AUDITOR.

Union Trust Building Baltimore.

(Term Expires 1927.)

Name. Postoffice.
State Auditor
Lewis M. Milbourne Kingston, Somerset County

Deputy Auditors

Thomas A Sweeney Baltimore
Daniel H Carroll of P. .. .. Bel Air

The State Auditor and the Deputy Auditors are appointed by the
Governor for a term of four years from the date of qualification on the