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have just adopted, transitional provisions, that Board does

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not go out of existence until January the sixth, 1971.

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Now, that provides the legislative year of 1968,

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1969, 1970 for something to be done with respect to what

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we have provided in the Constitution and that is to estab-

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lish a Board of Review.

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Under Section 4.24 of the executive article we

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provide a Board of Review. We provide who its members shall

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be and then we state that the Board shall act in such

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manner and have such powers as the General Assembly may

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prescribe by law. So we leave it to the General Assembly

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to prescribe the powers that the new Board of Review is to

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have.

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Now, let us take a look at what the transitional

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legislation is.

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Section 14 states the following: Upon the

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termination of the legal existence of the Board of Public

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Works". Now, that as I recalled to you before is January 6,

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1971, all of its powers, all of the powers and duties of the

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Board of Public Works shall be vested in the Board of Review

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so by this legislation we are transferring to the Board of