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DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Chairman Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: I suppose that
is possible, butN highly unlikely.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Grant.
DELEGATE GRANT: But as the pres-
ent article stands, you do not, or it would
mean that the General Assembly would be
unlimited in the powers it could delegate to
the lieutenant governor, whether the Gov-
ernor wanted them so delegated or not?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
A Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: Well, I do not
know whether they would be unlimited. In
other words, you could not take some of
the governor's powers and put them in the
lieutenant governor, but you could make
the lieutenant governor head of this pro-
gram or that program or some other pro-
gram, if the General Assembly wanted to,
and it would be possible to have that done
even over the governor's objection, I
suppose.
But I reiterate; I think that would be
very unlikely.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Grant.
DELEGATE GRANT: I was not so con-
cerned with the positive, which you indi-
cated as the capacity that the General As-
sembly might override the Governor, as to
the performance of governors. There should
be a sharp split, particularly in view of
the fact that there is a minority block
within the State.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Chairman Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: Well, the Com-
mittee thinks it has done everything it can
to be sure that the governor and lieutenant
governor are just like two peas in a pod,
and should see eye to eye all through their
administration, and for that reason we
think it highly unlikely that you would run
into a situation such as you have described
in your question.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Grant.
DELEGATE GRANT: Would it be a
fair statement then of the Committee's
position that what they intended to say was
that the lieutenant governor may perform
such duties as may be delegated to him by
the governor, and such other duties as may
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be delegated to him by law, which could
be not delegated to him by the governor?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Chairman Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: I think that is
probably correct.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Are there any further questions?
The Chair recognizes Delegate Ritter.
DELEGATE RITTER: Chairman Mor-
gan, how many department heads are there
under the merit system at the present time?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Chairman Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: That I do not
know. I know the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles is, I know the Department of Wel-
fare chief is; I will tell you in just a
minute.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
The Chair would like to use this few min-
utes break to say that the chief page has
just told me that they now have copies of
the report, the memorandum and the rec-
ommendation for this section.
They have been short on them and some
of the delegates have wanted extra copies.
They are now available.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Chairman Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: The informa-
tion I have before me indicates that there
seem to be about six.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Ritter.
DELEGATE RITTER: You say this
would only affect the department heads. It
will not affect any of the employees that
are under the merit system?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: I would assume
that no employees that are under the merit
system would be affected.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Ritter.
DELEGATE RITTER: But you do not
know positively?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Chairman Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: Of course, it is
perfectly possible to have one of these de-
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