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agency. Indeed, we recognize that many of the functions
of the Board are of vital importance to the State, but under
the committee's recommendation the decision -as to the
composition of the Board of Public Works, as to its
continuing existence, would be left to the General Assembly
- where the decision ought to be.
For all practical purposes, all of the functions
of the Board of Public Works are now statutory. Its ori-
ginal Constitutional functions, the reason for its originally
coming into being, have vanished, for all practical purposes,
with the passage of time.
The General Assembly at its next session could
create a Board of Fiscal Management, provide for a composi"
tion of such Board entirely different from that of the Boar I
of Public Works, and transfer all of the existing powers
of the Board of Public Works to the new Board.
Indeed, under the reorganization authority the
committee proposes to give to the Governor in section 4.19 )f
Executive Article the Governor, subject to the approval of
the General Assembly, could transfer all of the functions
of the Board of Public Works to a new board.