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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 814 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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COMPTROLLER , the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of an See also:

OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official whose business primarily was to examine and take See also:

charge of accounts, hence to See also:

DIRECT

direct or See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control; e.g. the See also:

ENGLISH

English comptroller of the See also:

HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

household, comptroller and auditor-See also:

general (See also:

head of the See also:

EXCHEQUER

exchequer and See also:

AUDIT

audit See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department), comptroller-general of See also:

PATENTS

patents, &c., comptroller-general (head of the See also:

NATIONAL

national See also:

DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

debt See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office). On the other See also:

hand, the word is frequently spelt controller, as in controller of the See also:

NAVY

navy, controller or head of the See also:

STATIONERY

stationery office. The word is used in the same sense in the See also:

UNITED

United States, as comptroller of the See also:

TREASURY

treasury, an official who examines accounts and signs drafts, and comptroller of the currency, who administers the See also:

law See also:

RELATING

relating to the national See also:

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