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Review all of the powers that are existing in the present

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Board of Public Works despite the fact that the constitu-

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tional provision states that that Board of Review shall

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have such powers as the General Assembly shall prescribe

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by law.

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Now, it has been explained to me that the reason

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that this deviates from what this transitional legisla-

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tion is supposed to be in this connection, the reason for

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it is that the Board of Public Works has such great powers

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particularly in the bond field that if there is any chance

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that the General Assembly would not act to grant these

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powers to the Board of Review when it is created, why then

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our financial situation would be chaotic to say the least

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and I would agree with him, but when we have three legisla-

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tive sessions by which the General Assembly can act, it

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seems to me that this fear is almost like building a

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scarecrow to tear down because obviously the General

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Assembly has to act responsibly in a number of areas, day

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in and day out. They have to pass appropriations; they do

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it. If they didn't do it, chaos would result so what I

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want to do is to bring to everybody's attention that here is