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The Executive Branch Committee recommends
that the board of Public Works not be provided for in the
Constitution. I oppose this recommendation. I urge
that this Convention should provide for the Board of
Public Works in the Constitution and whether you
agree later that the Board of Public Works should consist
of three or whether you agree that it should consist of
five is a matter for determination, but whichever it shall
be, it must be, I say to you, determined by the Consti-
tution.
Who says that the Board of Public Works should
not be in the Constitution? Not the present governor of
Maryland, Governor Agnew. He addressed this Assemblage
and he said "In my opinion the Board of Public
Works should be continued but reconstituted." You heard
his language, it was repeated here just a moment ago
by Delegate Dorsey.
Next, I called as a witness a man who served
eight years as Comptroller of the State, who served
on the Board of Public Works and who served as Governor
for eight years who is Honorary Chairman of this