The Comptroller of the Treasury was an official of the
United States Department of the Treasury from 1789 to 1817. According to section III of the Act of Congress establishing the Treasury Department, it is the
comptroller's duty to
superintend the adjustment and preservation of the public accounts; to examine all accounts settled by the
Auditor, and certify the balances arising thereon to the
Register; to countersign all
warrants drawn by the
Secretary of the Treasury, which shall be warranted by law; to report to the Secretary the official forms of all papers to be issued in the different offices for collecting the public
revenue, and the manner and form of keeping and stating the accounts of the several persons employed therein. He shall moreover provide for the regular and punctual payment of all monies which may be collected, and shall direct
prosecutions for all delinquencies of officers of the revenue, and for
debts that are, or shall be due to the United States.