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talked to one single delegate asking him for his vote on any single issue
in exchange for any favor implied or expressed. I've kept hands off this
Convention. I started out to do it, and I've done it.

Q. How about your staff?

A. The same way. The only way my staff would have any effect would
be to relay promises from me, and I have forbidden that.

Q. Governor, under whose authority were the State policemen used
the other night to bring delegates to Annapolis to break the tie vote
on the Board of Public Works?

A. I just don't even know that happened.
Q. Senator Malkus released the news.

A. I didn't know that happened, so it wasn't under my authority.
Q. Who could have done it?

A. Well, I don't know the circumstances, so you can't expect me to
respond to a question that I've just heard about for the first time with-
out knowing the circumstances of how they were delivered, why they
were brought.

Q. As a general policy, though, do you think State troopers ought to
be used for transportation of delegates to the Convention?
A. Not as a general policy, no; but I think there could be instances
where it could be warranted. I think the Legislature uses State police
for transportation under certain circumstances. I don't quarrel with
that. I certainly use the State police for transportation, and I can see
that conditions might arise where the delegates might need trans-
portation. But generally speaking, I don't think that there is any
great abuse of this.

NEWS RELEASE AND STATEMENT ON STUDY OF
DRUG ABUSE AND CONTROL

December 4, 1967

Governor Agnew announced today that the Federal government is
providing an additional $45, 000 to continue a study of drug abuse
and control in Maryland that may serve as a pilot project for the
country.

The grant from the National Institute of Mental Health will en-
able the Maryland Commission on Problems of Drug Addiction to
study in greater depth some of the findings it has already made.