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judges, the highest judge, $35,000 and our
governor $25,000. I urge you to pay the
governor $40,000.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are you ready for
the question?
(Call for the question.)
The Clerk will ring the quorum bell.
The question arises on the adoption of
Amendment No. 7 to Committee Recom-
mendation GP-13.
A vote Aye is a vote in favor of Amend-
ment No. 7. A vote No is a vote against.
Cast your vote.
Has every delegate voted? Does any dele-
gate desire to change his vote?
(There was no response.)
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 12 votes in the affirmative
and 92 in the negative, the motion is lost.
The amendment is rejected.
Are there any further amendments to
Section 8?
Section 9? Section 10? Section 11? Sec-
tion 12? Section 13?
(There was no response to these ques-
tions.)
Section 14?
Delegate Gleason, do you desire to offer
your Amendment U?
DELEGATE GLEASON: Yes, I do.
THE CHAIRMAN: Pages will please
distribute Amendment U, U for Uncle.
This will be Amendment No. 8.
The Clerk will read the amendment.
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 8
to Committee Recommendation GP-13 by
Delegate Gleason: On pages 19 and 20
strike out all of section 14, Board of Pub-
lic Works and Board of Review, comprising
all of lines 44 through 50, inclusive, on
page 19 and all of lines 1 through 10, in-
clusive, on page 20.
THE CHAIRMAN: The amendment is
submitted by Delegate Gleason.
Is there a second?
(Whcrcnpon, the motion was duly sec-
onded.)
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Sollins sec-
onds.
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The Chair recognizes Delegate Gleason.
DELEGATE GLEASON: Mr. Chairman
and fellow delegates, the schedule of legis-
lation as it has been explained to all of us
is supposed to contain provisions falling
into two categories.
The first category, reading from the
memorandum of the Committee, are those
provisions which are included in prior con-
stitutions, but not fully implemented by
legislation, which this Convention is de-
termined not to include in this constitu-
tion because they are not matters which
should properly be dealt with, or because
they are matter which should properly be
dealt with by the General Assembly.
And secondly, are items of legislation
necessary to implement the provisions of
the new constitution which items are of a
nature so essential that in the opinion of
the Convention their enactment cannot
await the action of the General Assembly.
We have seen during the debate today a
number of such instances.
Here we are dealing with a provision
whereby the effect of our constitutional
change is to abolish the Board of Public
Works but under the section that we have
just adopted in the transitional provisions,
that Board does not go out of existence
until January 6, 1971.
Now, that provides until the legislative
year of 1968, 1969, 1970 for something to
be done with respect to what we have pro-
vided in the constitution, and that is to
establish a board of review.
Under section 4.24 of the executive ar-
ticle we provide a board of review. We
provide who its members shall be and then
we state that the board shall act in such
manner and have such powers as the Gen-
eral Assembly may prescribe by law. So we
leave it to the General Assembly to pre-
scribe the powers that the new board of
review is to have.
Now, let us take a look at what the
transitional legislation is.
Section 14 states the following: "upon
the termination of the legal existence of
the Board of Public Works". Now, that as
I recalled to you before, is January 6, 1971,
when all of the powers and duties of the
Board of Public Works shall be vested in
the board of review. By this legislation we
are transferring to the board of review all
of the powers that are existing in the
present Board of Public Works despite the
fact that the constitutional provision states
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