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order would in effect have the force of law and therefore
it would have to go through this procedure.
If, on the other hand, it is merely a reassign-
ment of something which is now within the executive power
but is not otherwise prescribed by legislation then it need
not be done as a result of the executive power.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Mason.
DELEGATE MASON: Mr. Chairman, Delegate Adkins
explained what I had intended to speak to.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate James.
DELEGATE JAMES: Mr. Chairman, there is one
point that I would like to make here which I think the
Members should understand.
If this Conventionis not here to really have the
seed of a constitutional impact, it would be very conceivab-.e
without very strong cooperation between the executive and
legislative branch that the legislature would continually
disapprove the reorganization plans ef the executive. This
is easily conceivable unless this type of cooperation
existed, so that even in spite of the language of 4.18 that
there only be 20 principal departments, if the legislature