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DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: Can you
tell me the specific language in this amend-
ment which gives him those duties and those
powers and prerogatives?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Weide-
meyer, Delegate Morgan told you the pro-
vision as to membership on the Board of
Public Works or board of intergovernmental
review or whatever it is to be called is in
a separate amendment.
DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: If it is,
I did not see it.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Della.
DELEGATE DELLA: Delegate Morgan,
will you yield for a question?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: Yes.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Della.
DELEGATE DELLA: In Amendment
No. 7 you state that the comptroller shall
not be head of the finance department. Are
you going to make provision for a finance
department?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: I assume that
the finance department or the fiscal depart-
ment or whatever you want to call it will
be one of the principal departments of the
state government.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Della.
DELEGATE DELLA: Will you not have
to make some provisions for that?
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair is unclear
when you say "make some provisions". You
mean in the Constitution?
Delegate Della.
DELEGATE DELLA: No, I mean with
your transitional proposals to the legisla-
ture.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: I do not think
there is any necessity for making any pro-
vision for a finance department or any
other principal department.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Della.
DELEGATE DELLA: There is no fi-
nance department in existence today as a
finance department.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan.
The Chair would point out to you that
the words "finance department" in this
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amendment are in small letters. The Chair
would not take it that that referred to that
name as a proper name necessarily but
rather as descriptive. I would assume that
under the drafting rules that we have been
following that if it was intended that fi-
nance department be the name of a depart-
ment it would be in capital letters.
Delegate Della.
DELEGATE DELLA: Will you yield to
a question?
The comptroller's office now has the duty
to collect taxes. Are we to create a depart-
ment or have the General Assembly create
a department to collect taxes and have a
director over that department?
THE CHAIRMAN: I again am unclear
in your question; if you mean by "we" the
Constitution, I take it that the question
you asked is answered by the other sec-
tions of the committee recommendation,
namely those referring to the organization
of the executive branch, 4. 18 and the fol-
lowing section.
Delegate Della.
DELEGATE DELLA: Under those pro-
posals then I suppose the General Assem-
bly will have to provide for a so-called fi-
nance department.
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair would as-
sume so.
I direct the question to Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: I assume that
there is going to be a finance department
or a department of fiscal affairs or depart-
ment of treasury or some other name in
the state government and in that depart-
ment will be the function of all tax col-
lecting which is now performed by the
comptroller's office.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Della.
DELEGATE DELLA: In other words,
your Committee recognizes that problem.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: Oh, yes, cer-
tainly.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Della.
DELEGATE DELLA: The language
that I was looking for in answer to your
question is in 4. 18 that says "All functions,
duties and powers of the executive and ad-
ministrative offices, agencies, and instru-
mentalities of the executive branch of state
government shall be prescribed and allo-
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