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the Board of Public Works. It has not received the
scrutiny that all of the other changes which are suggested
here and have yet to come have received.
Let us go back to those who have studied our
government. We had a Commission under one of the
great living men dedicated to public service. I refer
to Judge Simon Sobeloff, , former Chief Judge of the
Court of Appeals of Maryland, City Solicitor of Baltimore,
Chief of the Judges of the Fourth Circuit Court of
Appeals, nd on and on and on. He was Chairman of the
Sobeloff Commission created by the governor of
Maryland and this is what his report says, and I quote
from page 20 of this report published in 1952: "The
Commission recommended that the Board of Public Works
retain its authority over the major decisions involving
public works and property."
The Sobeloff Commission recommended
further that it retain its authority over the issuance
of funds, requests for bids, selecting sites for new
institutions and that its authority be broadened.
Now, I say to you in 1955 I think when Judge