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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Rybczynski, can you

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answer the inquiry?

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DELEGATE RYBCZYNSKI: Partially.

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There are many officials who handle large sums

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of money. For instance, the Registrar of Wills of

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Baltimore City, who is an elective official, handles

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millions of dollars of taxes every year. He is just one

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example, and there are many, many others around the state.

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Clerks of courts handle many millions of dollars every

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year. All these sorts of people, sheriffs, many court

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house employees in particular.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Bennett.

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DELEGATE BENNETT: I have been bonded myself

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on many occasions, but the kind of bond you speak of to

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secure honesty is one thing, and the kind of bond Mr.

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White has in mind -- namely, a faithful performance bond

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is what he has in mind in which the New York bankers are

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involved -- is an entirely different kind of bond. I can

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think of no reason why in this day and age we should

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require anybody to put up monev for his faithful performance

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bonds in order to hold office, and I therefore think that
unless this could be amended and limited entirely to a