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12 MARYLAND MANUAL. Alcoholic Beverage Division: W. Clinton McSherry Frederick L. Franklin Purnell Ocean City Charles L. Schanberger Pikesville Clarence A. Wolf .... Baltimore William C. McDermott ........ G. Murray Phillips Salisbury Prank P. Clark . Silver Spriag Arthur Biggs..... Baltimore Floyd Larmore .......BaItimore J. Kensett Pyles . Annapolis Eleanor H. Fooks Annapolis Anna Douglas Valk . Annapolis Augusta Melvin Annapolis Kenneth Fooks Preston Emergency Gross Receipts Tax Division: Daniel L. Clayland, 3rd, Dtrector Baltimore Bessie S. Myers, Secretary Annapolis Messenger: J. Phillip Beall Annapolis The Comptroller is eleëted by the people for a term of four years from the third Monday in January next ensuing his election. The Comptroller appoints all officers in his own office. The Comptroller is the head qf 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 Cen- tral Purchasing 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 delinquent collectors and receivers of taxes and State revenue; preserve all public accounts; decide on the forms of keeping and stat- 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 his 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, An Act of the General Assembly of 1929 providing for a change in the Constitution which would permit the Comptroller to appoint deputies with authority to sign warrants and countersign checks was approved at the November, 1930, election. This authority makes pos- sible the direct payment of all obligations of the State by the State Treasury Department and gives the central accounting office of the State an opportunity to pass upon all vouchers before payment It had not been possible to provide for direct payment of all vouchers because of the impossibility of one man, the Comptroller, being able to sign all the warrants and checks which would be necessary if this plan were put into effect. A similar provision was approved for the State Trea- surer’s Office so that the State Treasurer will be authorized to appoint a deputy, or deputies, to sign checks in payment of State obligations. |
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