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the Chair recognizes Delegate Maurer to speak to the
amendment.
DELEGATE MAURER; Mr. Chairman, the effect
of the amendment Number 17 is to provide that all
heads of principal departments will be single executives,
except in the event that the state public school system
or any of the institutions of higher learning are set up
as principal departments.
The minority report as it was drawn, I felt, did
a disservice to the school system and to the institutions
of higher learning. They provided that if they should
become a principal department, then the head of it would
be a single executive, in that event doing away with the
state Board of Education and the Regents of the University.
As this amendment is drawn, it sets up the ex-
ception and provides for single executives to head other
agencies.
While I have been in on the debates in the
Committee very strong in my conviction that the school
system, both regular schools and the schools representing
higher learning should be in a relatively protected position