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earlier today, or yesterday, and the amendment. It seems
that in the report, Report No. 3, there it very definitely
locked into the Board or Review the existing powers of the
Board of Public Works and as I read that, the general
assembly could not change those powers but could add to
them.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan. Do you have
a further question. Delegate Barrick?
DELEGATE BARRICK: No. I think he has answered
my question. Thank you.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Bennett.
DELEGATE BENNETT: Mr. Chairman and Delegate
Morgan, I must be under some sort of a misapprehension here
I had thought that one of the objectives here was to
prevent the legislature from passing a buck to this
interdepartmental Board in so many ways and to restrict some
of these 35 powers it has now. What you have done is give
them a blank check here when you authorized them to pre-
scribe all of their powers, and I thought you had a very
good amendment here because you indicated in a way the
dimensions of this authority of this Board when you