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be a principal department. If it is, it can be included
as a Board within one of the principal departments.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Raley.
DELEGATE RALEY: Under 4.18 where it says
"All duties shall be under a principal department", I can''
conceive that it would be considered as part of a prin-
cipal department. Further, it seems to me, and I want
your thinking on this, that unless this Board was mentionc<
in the Constitution that it probably would be illegal
anyhow because under 4.Ul it says if all executive
powers vested in the government shall do the laws.
If you don't put something in here and let the
assembly do it, it can't be done.
THE CHAIRMAN; Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: I -- just the way the General
Assembly enacts a law and says it can't be carried out
by the Secretary of this or the head of this Department
or that department, I suppose that is, in a sense, inter-
fering with the executive authority, but it has never
been held to do so.
I submit that if you took the Board cf Public
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