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made the recommendations it did on the Board of Public
Works, on the Comptroller, on the Treasurer, and on the
Attorney General.
From the beginning, the Maryland Constitution
has represented to the people of Maryland that the executive
power of the State was vested in the Governor. Moreover,
the Constitution has represented that the Governor is
the one who has the responsibility to see to it that the
laws of the State are faithfully executed.
These representations in the Constitution,
however, just aren't so. The Constitution of 18b7 vests
important executive functions in the Board of Public Works.
Now, while most of those Constitutional functions have
become archaic and non-existent as a result of the march
of history, the 1867 Constitution also vests important execJ
tive functions in the Comptroller and vests executive func-
tions in the Treasurer.
Under the existing Constitution the Governor
cannot,-in the case of many laws, take care that such laws
are faithfully executed, except with the approval of another
member of the Board of Public Works -- and both of the other