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of the State government not have a Constitutional status.
I want to emphasize that the committee does not recommend
the abolition of the one agency or any of these offices,
only that they do not have a Constitutional status.
The agency covered by our recommendations is
the Board of Public Words, and the offices are the Office
of Comptroller, the Office of Treasurer, and the
following sundry offices, at least three of which ceased to
exist long ago: Secretary of State, Coroners, Elisors,
Notaries Public, Surveyors, and the State Librarian.
The issue of whetherthe new Constitution should
provide for a Board of Public Works, whether it should
provide for an elected Comptroller, whether it should pro-
vide for an elected Attorney General, wehther it should
provied for a Treasurer appointed by the General Assembly,
all of these issues were extremely controversial in our
committee, and the vote on each was 11 to 9.
There was no controversy as to the Secretary o
State, Coroners, Elisors, Notaries Public, Surveyors, or thi
State Librarian.
N ow let me give you the reasons the committee