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a check on an inept or corrupt governor, that the
legislature has committed to the Board many, many functions.
The statutes providing for these functions
were distributed to us on the committee and possibly to
every delegate and they comprise 33 pages of statutes
setting forth the powers and the duties of the Board of
Public Works.
Mr. Chairman, former governor Tawes told us
on the Committee on the Executive Branch that Maryland
already has one of the strongest governors in the nation,
so we don't have a situation where it is necessary to
bolster a heretofore weak governor. We have heard
many times in the public press and here today on the floor
at times that the Board of Public Works constitutes a
hobble on the ankles of the governor.
No one has pointed out any specific instance
where the governor has been hampered in doing what the
law provides as governor. The function of the Board
of Public Works is to see to it that the law is
carried out with respect to state expenditures, state
purchases and things of that nature.