CENTRAL PAYROLL BUREAU
Robert L. Serviss, Director
State Office Building, Annapolis Telephone: Colonial 8-3371

The Central Payroll Bureau, organized in 1953, is a joint agency
of the State Treasurer's office and the Comptroller of the Treasury.
Using reports received from the various agencies of the state, the
Bureau compiles the payroll journal, writes the payroll checks, main-
tains records of earnings for each employee, issues payroll disburs-
ing warrants, and submits bi-weekly reports to the State Employees,
Teachers, and Police Retirement Systems. It deposits deductions for
Federal withholding taxes and makes remittances for State with-
holding taxes. Quarterly reports of Social Security earnings to the
Federal Government and annual reports to employees of wages and
taxes withheld are additional functions. The appropriation for the
Central Payroll Bureau is included in the budget of the Comptroller
of the Treasury.

Appropriations 1957 1958

General Funds . $78,518 $101,787
Staff: 22.

STATE TREASURER

Hooper S. Miles, Treasurer, 1959
Charles M. Speicher, Chief Deputy
J. Hugh Taylor, Deputy

State Office Building, Annapolis Telephone: Colonial 3-3117

1218 Mathieson Building, Baltimore 2 Telephone: Saratoga 7-5166

Under the Constitution of 1776, there were two State Treasurers—
the Treasurer of the Eastern Shore and the Treasurer of the West-
ern Shore. In 1841 a constitutional amendment consolidated the two
offices. The present constitution provides that the Treasurer shall
be elected by joint ballot of both Houses of the General Assembly for
a term of four years. The Treasurer is responsible for depositing
each day the money of the State in an authorized depository. The
Treasurer or his deputy must sign all checks countersigned by the
Comptroller or an authorized deputy. The Treasurer invests unex-
pended or surplus funds of the State which are available for invest-
ment purposes and is the custodian of the State's insurance, all
stocks, bonds, or other investments of the State, and securities
pledged by all insurance companies, foreign building and homestead
associations, and all banks holding deposits of State Funds, as re-
quired by the laws of the State. He publishes in a Baltimore news-
paper a monthly balance of all State funds held in authorized de-
positories and renders a quarterly report to the Comptroller. The
Treasurer is also the custodian of such special funds as may be
prescribed by law (Const. 1867, Art. VI, secs. 1, 2, 4).

Appropriations 1957 1958

General Funds $351,647 $609,421
Staff: 15.

STATE AUDITOR

James L. Benson, State Auditor, 1959
Benjamin Gary, Deputy State Auditor
Kathleen Collins, Administrative Assistant

1401 Standard Oil Bldg., Baltimore 2 Telephone: Lexington 9-4542