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General Assembly, by law, shall have, or shall, by law,

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have concurrent power to regulate matters subject to

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rule, or matters enumerated in this section — The matters

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enumerated in this section is the rule-making power given

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by the first sentence to the Court of Appeals and to regulate

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that rule-making power would mean that the General

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Assembly would have no more power than to say when they

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had to do it or if they would have to put it up in a

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book, in brown cover, black cover, et cetera.

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That is all I see, that you have come here and,

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as I see it, it has stripped the understanding that we had

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that there was to be that concurrent power.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Weidemeyer, I think

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you have inadvertently, but nevertheless incorrectly,

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stated the results of the discussion in the Committee

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of the Whole. It was, as the Chair recalls it, and

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certainly as this section provides, both before and after

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the Bothe Amendment, clearly intended that in the areas

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set out in this section, there was to be concurrent

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power, except in those instances elsewhere where there is

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a specific orovision for the Court of Appeals to act by