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in asking it.
DELEGATE BYRNES: The second.
DELEGATE MOSER: The answer is, and has to be,
I suppose this: that if they transfer a particular functio
to another governmental unit, whatever it may be, if it is
a governmental unit, then they do have the power to do it.
This is the only way, for instance, that authorities can
operate. It would only be true if they passed it exclusive
If they withdraw it and passed it exclusively to another
governmental unit, this would mean they have to say just
that, because ordinarily when these things are done, they
are not passed on exclusively.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Byrnes.
DELEGATE BYRNES: What troubles me, of course,
is your definition of public general law, as much by its
terms --
DELEGATE MOSER: This is true. I think you
aptly point out a very necessary State power which is re-
tained in the General Assembly, which is to say they do
have the power to set up a multi-county authority. For
instance, what they have done, let's say for the Maryland
Port Authority, in effect, is to withdraw the power to