Initial responsibility for municipal auditing activities lay with the register (BRG32). Mounting duties in this area compelled the establishment in 1852 of a City Auditor (BRG6), an office that was responsible for auditing municipal tax collections. The following year, however, the auditor's duties were changed to tax collection only, and all other auditing duties were transferred back to the register. Another administrative change occurred in 1857 with creation of the comptroller's office (BRG43). The comptroller, along with other powers, acquired complete control over all auditing procedures. In 1898, the new city charter provided for the position of an audit clerk under the comptroller. The clerk assumed most of the comptroller's auditing duties. From 1926 until 1964 the audit function was removed from the comptroller to an independent city auditor, but in 1964 a Bureau of Audits was re-created and placed again under the Comptroller, where it is situated today.