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We resume Committee Recommendation R&P-2.

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For what purpose does Delegate Delegate Marvin

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H. Smith arise?

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DELEGATE MARVIN H. SMITH; One of personal

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privilege.

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THE CHAIRMAN : State the privilege.

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DELEGATE MARVIN H. SMITH: I would like to

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recognize the presence in the gallery of 71 of the 72

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students of Colonel Richardson High School, who themselves

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have written their version of the Constitution of Maryland

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-- the 72nd being my daughter Mellissa, who is over in the

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corner -- togeher with their teachers, Mrs. Roberts and

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Mr. Lovell.

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I feel bound to say to you that this school is

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named for Colonel William Richardson, who had many

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accomplishments but who was, among other things, a Delegate

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from Caroline County to the Convention of 1876, and it was

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he who invited Thomas Johnson to sit with the Caroline

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County delegation when he had been ousted from other places

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and contributed thereby to his election as Governor of

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Maryland. (Applause)