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functions among its units which he considers necessary for
efficient administration".
But we finally agreed on giving him this vast
power because we were strengthening his hand but we didn't
want to give him the right to prescribe the functions and
do away with the legislature entirely. I don't believe we
need to go back to the Committee. I think the way we worker
it out was all right. The legislature will prescribe the
functions and really say what the policy or what the law wil
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do and the Governor has the right to say who will do what.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Scanlan.
DELEGATE SCANLAN: I don't want to contribute to
; semantics today here. Judge Adkin's lucid presentation
clarifies what I thought was clear, that there is no
necessary contradiction between the language "by law" in
4.18 and the language in 4.19. The only possibility of
contradiction arises if Mrs. Maurer's amendment is
successful and the temporary section is stricken. Then the
contradiction only arises if one takes the position that
an executive order having the force of law is nevertheless
"by law" as used in 4.18. I think there is not a difference