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DELEGATE GILCHRIST; At the risk of being
involved in semantics with Delegate Marion's suggestion a
little while ago, I would like to suggest, that I sent back
for Delegate Stern's Dictionary and I find that it says,
with respect to duty, that this is the action required by
one's position or occupation, and when you turn to power,
you find it to be a totally different thing, and power is
possession of control, authority or influence over others.
I suggest that the Committee's language in the
recommendation is a very different thing from the Committee s
language in its commentary; that if you intend to produce
a result which is contained in a commentary, you not only
need to have duties in the recommendation, you need to have
powers, and I don't know of any place where powers are
delegated to Lieutenant Governors. They are generally duties.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: Mr. President, I think this
can probably all be ended by agreeing, as I said I would,
to the Chabot Amendment, since the Governor can accomplish
this under another section of the Executive Article. In
any event, by giving the Lieutenant Governor notification