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from Harford County, 79 students from the Edgewood Junior

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High School, with their teachers, Miss Lois Merckle and

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Mr. Garlands Fuller, and 30 eighth grade students from

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our North Harford High School with their teacher, Mr.

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Stephen C. Williams.

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I would appreciate your all joining me in giving

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them a welcome. (Applause.)

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Ritter.

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DELEGATE RITTER: Has your Committee gone into the

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far-reaching effect that if this exemption was taken out

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of the constitution what effect it might have on railroad

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employment on the B&0 in the State of Maryland as well as

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effect to the Port of Baltimore by them having their

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tentacles into the coal fields of West Virginia whence

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most all our coal is shipped abroad from Curtis Bay?

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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: No, we have not. I should

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say it is not puni.tive or penal legislation. This is

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merely an attempt to regularize and to make uniform

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corporation statutes and the handling of corporations

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chartered by the State of Maryland. We did not seek

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to weigh the economic impact of the loss of the exemption.