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1	ing about whether or not I ought to get rid of the whole
2	board and get some people down there that will run it with-
3	out bothering me with it. They didn't come back any more.
4	MR. BOND: Well, Governor, that is the point,
5	I mean this is the thing that is concerning us. In other
6	words, in many of the departments throughout the State
7	now, there are boards, take Welfare, just the one I am con-
8	nected with, we have a budget of 100 million dollars right
9	now, it is a nine-man board, and the lav; vests the auth-
10	ority for the administration of that department, not in
11	the Governor, but in this board.
12	Now, I think I am coming around to the point
13	of view that I think perhaps that is wrong because the
14	board is part time, but assuming that all department heads,
15	that all advisory boards and that all administrative
16	boards became advisory, and assuming that all heads of
17	departments served at the will of the Governor, I hear you
18	saying that you want some sort of little restriction that
19	you think might be advisable on the Governor, is that cor-
20	rect or not?
21	GOVERNOR LANE: Maybe my first thought on that