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DELEGATE FULLEN: I stand upon that, and I give

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you as my argument the facts that I just gave you com-

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paratively, comparatively the provision of education --

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Pullen, this time is

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precious.

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DELEGATE PULLEN: I realize that, sir. I

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apologize.

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Let's come back to the statement. You have the

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compliment of the report that the State Board has operated

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well, but free from politics. May I ask you, in writing

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your argument, did you realize that in 1864 the Consti-

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tution of Maryland provided for a State Board of Education

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and a State superintendent, and that they were both

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abolished by another Constitutional Convention, which was

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called rather conveniently, and further that there was

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no State Board of Education, and the State superintendent

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were abolished in '68, one year later, that there was

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no State superintendent as an individual office until 1900

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and then only in a minor way; and further, that the State

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Board of Education was more or less impotent, and the

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State superintendent until 1920? Did you realize that when