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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chairman and Ladies
and Gentlemen of the Committee:
The question before the Committee is simply
this: Shall the Board of Public Works be continued in the
Constitution?
I submit that its presence there today is an
historical anachronism which had justification in 18b7,
but certainly not in 1967.
Taking a look at the debates of July 12, 1967,
on page 390 of the proceedings you will be interested to
notice that the data considering the establishment of
the Board of Public Works then gets into the questions
of how the State's interest in the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company under the deed of trust to Phineas Howard
Janney and others is handled, how the State's interest
in the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal shall be handled, and
how the State's interest in the Susquehanna and Tidewater
Canal Companies shall be handled.
I submit to you that the reading of the record wi:.l
show that the sole purpose of the Board of Public Works
as it originated was simply to determine