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Murray has to carry a bond, Churchill Murray. It is a

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customary thing that you carry a bond. It is to give the

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state assurance of your faithful performance of the job

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that you have to do. The governor has to carry it, the

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judges have to carry it in some way or other.

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I think it was a most unfortunate thing that

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happened down South, and I am very much opposed to it --

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you know I am. Nevertheless, in the state of Maryland

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we are not necessarily guilty of that particular thing.

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We write bonds for public officials and have never to my

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knowledge had any public official, any person who has had

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to carry a public official bond since the days of Everett

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Lane, who was appointed judge -- and I wrote the bond

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for him, I wrote the bond for John Barry --we have had no

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difficulty in posting bonds in the state of Maryland.

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In addition to that, I sincerely believe that

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the carrying of a bond is a necessary thing. Quite

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recently we had some severe insurance scandals in Maryland.

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If it had not been for the bond that the people carried, man;

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of the people would not have been able to receive any

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financial benefits. I think it is a very necessary thing,