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now apparently are comprising a board that may be given
no function by the general assembly; is that true?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: That is possible, but I
think hardly likely.
DELEGATE WHEATLEY: I suggest the general
assembly may have well been reluctant if given the option
to give this power to a board which it could, I assume,
reserve for itself if it were not compelled to do so and
exercise all of these functions.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: I call Delegate Wheatley's
attention to the fact that for all practical purposes all
of the powers of the existing Board of Public Works are
purely statutory. They could be taken away from it by
the general assembly next January.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Wheatley.
DELEGATE WHEATLEY: Of course the existing
board is of a different composition. It has a member of the
Treasury elected by the general assembly, so I think the
comparison could not necessarily be accurate as to a newly