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DELEGATE MAURER: Yes, sir.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Hickman.
DELEGATE HICKMAN: One further question. Would
it be possible for a department such as the Motor Vehicle
Department to be made a principal department and where we
have a commissioner who is under the merit system to be
relieved of his job under this?
THE CHAIP.MAN: Delegate Maurer.
DELEGATE MAURER: It is my understanding that
any person under the merit system could not be deprived of
his merit system rating; I'm not sure you could say he has
his rating as a head of a principal department because we do
not have principal departments at the present time but it
is my understanding that a person keeps his rating within
the merit system and would be in a position to have a
position of a similar nature.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Hickman.
' DELEGATE HICKMAN: May I ask if Delegate Morgan
agrees with that answer?
THE CHAIRMAN: Yes, but before you do, I think
maybe someone could correct Delegate Maurer's inadvertent