On the 8th of June he was appointed Comptroller of the Custom and Subsidy of Wools, Hides and Woodfells and also of the Petty Customs of Wine in the Port of London.
The First Comptroller has intimated that if, upon a thorough examination, the facts are found to be as stated, he will approve the application.
When the transfer was fully effected, the new office of Comptroller of Indian Convicts was created, and the whole of those Indian convicts in the three settlements were placed under his charge.
I went, with my half-crown, to present a petition to the comptroller general, who was that day giving audience.
A fourth, who was comptroller of the royal domains, presented a specious memorial, in which he justified himself for his having reduced twenty families to beggary.
After the Restoration, Charles II appointed himComptroller of the Household.
Philip Jones (Councillor and Colonel, and now "Comptroller of our Household").
The only other exchequer officer requiring mention is the comptroller and auditor-general, whose functions as comptroller-general of the exchequer have been already described.
Drafts on the exchequer require the approval of an officer independent of the executive government, the comptroller and auditor-general.
In the office of the Comptroller of the Currency: Bond clerk.
Through the interest of Sir George Staunton, to whose son he taught mathematics, he was attached on the first British embassy to China as comptroller of the household to Lord Macartney.
Five reports are required each year to the comptroller of the currency at dates selected by him without notice, and each bank is subject to the visitation of bank examiners acting under the comptroller.
Much statistical information is contained in the annual reports of the comptroller of the currency of the United States, published annually at Washington.
In 1816 we find a warrant appointing a civilian comptroller of the barrack department to deal with the erection and upkeep of barracks and barrack hospitals not within fortified places.
We pay form a notion of the little progress made in arts and refinement about this time, from one circumstance; a man of no less rank than the comptroller of Edward VI.
Young man, why didn't the First Comptroller of the Corn-Beef Division tell me this?
I went to the Second Comptrollerof the Corn-Beef Division.
The Second Auditor sent me to the Third, and the Third sent me to the First Comptroller of the Corn-Beef Division.
This night in discourse the Comptroller told me among other persons that were heretofore the principal officers of the Navy, there was one Sir Peter Buck, a Clerk of the Acts, of which to myself I was not a little proud.
Carteret's [Sir George Carteret, born 1599, had originally been bred to the sea service, and becameComptroller of the Navy to Charles I.
The Comptroller and I to the coffee-house, where he shewed me the state of his case; how the King did owe him about L6000.
And that being done the Comptroller and I to the Mitre to a glass of wine, when we fell into a discourse of poetry, and he did repeat some verses of his own making which were very good.
I spoke of it to the Comptroller and the rest of the principal officers, who are all unwilling to meddle in anything that may anger my Lady Davis.
When staying very long I found (as appointed) the Treasurer and Comptrollerat Whitehall, and so we went with a foul copy to the Parliament house, where we met with Sir Thos.
To the office and there staid till past 12 o'clock, and so I left the Comptroller and Surveyor and went to Whitehall to my Lord's, where I found my Lord gone this morning to Huntingdon, as he told me yesterday he would.
This morning I went (after the Comptroller and I had sat an hour at the office) to Whitehall to dine with my Lady, and after dinner to the Privy Seal and sealed abundance of pardons and little else.
Within all the morning and dined at home, my mind being so troubled that I could not mind nor do anything till I spoke with the Comptroller to whom the lodgings belong.
Guttierez perceiving it, and calling to Salcedo, comptroller of the fleet, all three saw it in motion, as if it were carried from place to place.
He refused it, as he did all office: it was then intended for Mr. Azariah Flagg, the able and incorruptible comptroller of New York, the friend of Wright and Van Buren.
In the following year the Comptroller of Paper Currency reported that no difficulty whatever was experienced as the result of universalising the Rs.
Receives from the comptroller the school money due the county, and pays the same over to the several supervisors, as directed by the school commissioner's certificate.
Pays over to the comptroller the amount going to the state.
John Jay Knox, comptroller of the currency, however, favored the admission of the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York as a member of the clearing house.
The bill has been prepared under the supervision of John Jay Knox, deputy comptroller of the currency, and its passage is recommended in the form presented.
The papers say that the Comptroller has decided that the back pay would lapse in two years.
It was a law so expressed that the comptroller said he could not execute it.
The comptroller of the currency had taken active and efficient measures to protect the interests of the United States.
By this new act the office of comptroller of the currency was created.
I may say with the comptroller of the currency, that the retirement of eighty per cent.
He is a member of a board of estimate, of which the other four members are the comptroller and auditor, with the county treasurer and supervisor.
There is always a state treasurer, and usually a state auditor or comptroller to examine the public accounts and issue the warrants without which the treasurer cannot pay out a penny of the state's money.
The comptroller is the principal finance officer and book-keeper of the city; and the auditor must approve bills against the city, whether great or small, before they can be paid.
Chaucer was still Comptroller of the Customs; and, before long, John gave him a second post of a similar kind, called 'Comptroller of the Petty Customs.
There was an intimate friend of the Resident of the department; afterwards a little assistant-comptroller came in and joined the company.
The gentlemen were speaking of a Regent whom the strange comptroller knew well.
The following morning notice of an appointment as clerk to a comptroller in the mountains was sent to him.
The Comptroller too does this, and also the Assistant-Resident, and no native official is ruined by the single cup of tea which he offers them.
Next to the Resident comes the Assistant-Resident, the Comptroller of the first and second class and the Aspirant.
After some years a new comptroller or possibly assistant comptroller came; then the measure of his misfortunes was made to overflow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "comptroller" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
