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agencies, 20 principal departments, and if I understand it,
it means 20 principal departments and certainly the Board
of Public Works would not be a principal department, and
therefore, this section prohibits, it seems to me now,
I would like to comment on it now -- it seems to me it
would prohibit the General Assembly from setting up a
board of Public Works.
THU CHAIRMAN: Delegate Dorsey.
DELEGATE DORSEY: I am inclined to agree
with you that it would. I would rather you take it up
with some members after the Convention. However, I say
to you, and I say to this Convention, that the Board of
Public Works has always reacted to the benefit of the peo-
ple of this state and should be retained in the Consti-
tution and discretion should not be given to the legis-
lature.
THE CHAIRMAN: Any further questions of the
minority spokesman. Delegate Henderson?
DELEGATE HENDERSON: Judge Dorsey, is it not
true that all of the powers enjoyed by the Board of
Public Works at the present time are legislative rather