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County, Garrett County, Harwood County, Kent County,

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Queen Annes, Somerset, and all though some of those sound

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like small communities so did Baltimore City by a few

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thousand majority.

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At a time we are going to have a low turnout

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don't let the wonderful document we have drafted hang up

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on a pocketbook issue. Many of you will argue we have to

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pay realistic salaries. You are giving the Legislature

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the right to set the salary of public officials hereafter.

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Don't confuse the issue over something which can best be

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emotional and does not affect the pocketbook of the

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incumbent Governor.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan, do you wish to

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respond on behalf of the Committee?

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DELEGATE MORGAN: Mr. Chairman, I think the

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Governor should be the highest paid man in the State, and

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when the judges of the Court of Appeals get $35,000, I

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think that the Governor of the State ought to get at least

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$40,000. I really think he ought to get more than forty

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thousand dollars, but it just seems to me that $40,000 is

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a very reasonable salary for the Governor and if the people