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Take the word "meeting". If the Governor of

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the state and the Mayor of the city of Baltimore have a

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meeting with respect to the enforcement of law and order,

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is this a meeting which must be open to the public?

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When the Governor calls in the acting head of

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the militia to prepare for a threatened riot, is it going

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to be necessary that they give due notice that this meeting

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is going to be held, and invite in the press and thus make it

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quite clear what the procedure will be in avoiding the riot?

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THE CHAIRMAN: You have one-quarter minute.

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DELEGATE WINSLOW: I am worried about the word

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"record". Delegate Willoner said that a letter would not

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be a finalized record. I hope to heaven we keep this word

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"finalized" out of the Constitution, and for that matter out

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of the law, but I would submit that a letter from one

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official to another may become a very important part of

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the official record, and it would seem to me it would be

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extremely undesirable that we should write this kind of

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uncertainty and indefinable provision in the Constitution.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Willoner.

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DELEGATE WILLONER: I yield 3 minutes to Delegate