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Water Rents and Licenses. This Board shall be for consulta-
tion and advice, and it shall have no power to direct or con-
trol the duties or the work, of any sub-department. It shall
perform such other duties as may be prescribed by ordinances
not inconsistent with this Article. The Comptroller shall be
the President of said Board. The fiscal year of the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore shall begin on the first day of Jan-
uary and end on the thirty-first day of December in every year.

33. The Comptroller shall be elected by the inhabitants of
the City of Baltimore qualified to vote for Mayor on the Tues-
day next after the first Monday in May, in the year eighteen
hundred and ninety-nine, and on the same day and month in
every fourth year thereafter. He shall be a person possessing
the same qualifications as herein prescribed for Mayor. The
term of the Comptroller shall commence on the Tuesday next
after the third Monday in May, in the year eighteen hundred
and ninety-nine, and continue for four years, and until his
successor is elected and qualified, and he shall receive a salary
of three thousand five hundred dollars per annum, payable
monthly.

34. The Comptroller shall be the head of the first sub-
department of Finance, and he shall appoint a Deputy Comp-
troller and such clerks as may be provided for by ordinance, in-
cluding one to be known as the Audit Clerk, and another for
the collection of harbor and wharf rents, to be known as Har-
bor Master, with such assistants to him as may be provided for
by ordinance, and another for the collection of fees for the in-
spection of weights and measures, to be known as the Inspector
of Weights and Measures, with such assistants to him as
may be provided for by ordinance, and another to be known as
Market Master, with such assistants to him as may be provided
by ordinance. The salary of such Deputy, assistants and
clerks shall be fixed by ordinances. All of such appointees
shall be subject to the written approval of the Mayor. The
Comptroller shall have general supervision over the financial
matters of the City, and shall have oversight of all sub-depart-
ments in this department. No claim, account or demand
against the City of any kind whatsoever shall be paid unless
first audited and approved by the Comptroller. All moneys