T HE Kentucky General Assembly in 1948 established a new agency, the Legislative Research Commission, to strengthen and sharpen its leadership in developing legislative policy. Implicit also in the thinking of the legislators was the desire to oversee, more effectively and regularly, the administration of the statutes they enacted. Both aims have, of course, long been recognized as essential concomitants, or even ingredients, of the legislative process. In creating this new commission under the leadership of their Governor, the Kentucky legislators took care to supply appropriations adequate to perform the research basic both to new legislation and investigation of administration. The law also provided that the director to be appointed by the commission must "have had graduate training in government in a recognized university, college or practical experience in governmental administration." The first meeting of the Legislative Research Commission was held on August 13, 1948. The statute has only a few brief references to the function of surveillance of administration. It lays upon the Legislative Research Commission the duty to: