Maryland?s comptroller would not be half so visible or influential as the state?s chief tax collector and payroll chief without his seat on the Board of Public Works, a unique institution among the states.
A few states have executive boards that review the letting of public contracts, but Maryland is the only one where the governor shares this power with an independently elected comptroller and a state treasurer chosen by the legislature.
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