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“In the connection between the departments some overlapping is permissible, and there is a region of authority, alternative and concurrent, the boundaries of which are fixed by no final rule.” Opinion of the Justices, 87 N.H. 492, 493 (1935).

“If the proposed jurisdiction might be bestowed, the limits of [legislative] authority would be almost without bounds and indefinite encroachment on judicial power would be possible.” Opinion of the Justices, 87 N.H. 492, 496 (1935).

Hynes also relies upon Opinion of the Justices, 87 N.H. 492 (1935).

“[T]here is a region of authority, alternative and concurrent, the boundaries of which are fixed by no final rule.” Opinion of the *727 Justices, 87 N.H. 492, 493, 179 A. 357, 359 (1935).

jhere the power is intimately connected with and incidental or auxiliary to the exercise of strictly judicial powers, or related to officers whose duties are closely connected with the judicial work of the court, it may constitutionally be exercised by the courts.” Opinion of the Justices, 102 N.H. 195, 199, 152 A.2d 878, 881 (1959) (Duncan, J.) (quotations omitted); cf. Opinion of the Justices, 87 N.H. 492, 495, 179 A. 344, 346 (1935) (governmental functions must be viewed in the nature of its

“[W]hen an executive board has regulatory functions, it may hear and determine controversies which are incidental thereto....” Opinion of the Justices, 87 N.H. 492, 493, 179 A. 357, 359 (1935).

at 327, 251 A.2d at 335 (citing Opinion of the Justices, 87 N.H. 492, 494, 179 A. 344, 346 (1935)).

Monier v. Gallen, 120 N.H. 333, 339, 414 A.2d 129, 130 (1980); Opinion of the Justices, 87 N.H. 492, 493, 179 A. 344, 345 (1935).

This court has long recognized that executive officers may be vested with some judicial power to enable them to perform practically their executive duties and that some overlapping of judicial power is permissible, Opinion of the Justices, 87 N.H. 492, 493, 179 A. 344, 345 (1935), although the extent to which such overlapping is permissible cannot be delineated with certainty.

There exists what has been described as “a region of authority, alternative and concurrent, the boundaries of which are fixed by no final rule.” Opinion of the Justices, 87 N.H. 492, 493, 179 A.2d 344, 345 (1935).

RSA 76:16-a (Supp. 1973); Opinion of the Justices, 87 N.H. 492, 179 A. 357 (1935); Manchester v. Boston & Maine R.R., 98 N.H. 52, 94 A.2d 552 (1953); Peter Salvucci & Sons, Inc. v. State, 110 N.H. 136, 155-56, 268 A.2d 899, 911-12 (1970), aff'd, 111 N.H. 259, 281 A.2d 164 (1971).

N.H. Milk Dealers’ Ass’n. v. Milk Control Board, 107 N.H. 335, 340, 222 A.2d 194, 199 (1966); Opinion of the Justices, 87 N.H. 492, 179 A. 344 (1935); 1 Am.