COMPARISON OF CONSTITUTIONS

	PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF 1968	CONSTITUTION OF 1867
		Company, in which the State has the legal
		power to appoint Directors, which said
		Directors shall represent the State in all
		meetings of the Stockholders of the respec-
		tive Companies for which they are ap-
		pointed or elected. They shall require the
		Directors of all said Public Works to guard
		the public interest, and prevent the estab-
		lishment of tolls which shall discriminate
		against the interest of the citizens or
		products of this State, and from time to
		time, and as often as there shall be any
		change in the rates of toll on any of the said
		Works, to furnish the said Board of Public
		Works a schedule of such modified rates
		of toll, and so adjust them as to promote
		the agricultural interests of the State; they
		shall report to the General Assembly at
		each regular session, and recommend such
		legislation as they may deem necessary and
		requisite to promote or protect the interests
		of the State in the said Public Works; they
		shall perform such other duties as may be
		hereafter prescribed by Law, and a majority
		of them shall be competent to act. The
		Governor, Comptroller and Treasurer shall
		receive no additional salary for services
		rendered by them as members of the Board
		of Public Works.
		Sec. 3. The Board of Public Works is
		hereby authorized, subject to such regula-
		tions and conditions as the General As-
		sembly may from time to time prescribe,
		to sell the State's interest in all works of
		Internal Improvement, whether as a stock-
		holder or a creditor, and also the State's
		interest in any banking corporation, re-
		ceiving in payment the bonds and regis-
		tered debt now owing by the State, equal
		in amount to the price obtained for the
		State's said interest.
	Section 4.26. Structure of the Executive
	Branch.
	All functions, powers, and duties of the of-
	fices, agencies, and instrumentalities of the
	executive branch shall be allocated according
	to major purposes among and within not
	more than twenty principal departments.
	The maximum number of principal depart-
	ments may be increased by the General As-
	sembly by law enacted by the affirmative vote
	of three-fifths of all members of each house.
	Any agency or commission which is a regula-
	tory, quasi-judicial, or temporary agency es-
	tablished by law may, but need not, be allo-
	cated within a principal department.

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