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or whatever committee was going to consider the provisions

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relating to transitional provisions. My recollection is the

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vote was 15 to 0, and the only change was one of style in

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lines 15 and 16.

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Point two, it was a specific point of what the

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Local Government Committee intended to do with respect to

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municipalities.

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Number three, nowhere in Section --in Article

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23A does a similar provision appear. It is necessary. It

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is not 23A, because it is in the Constitution. It is

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wholly and entirely, and notwithstanding the comments of

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Delegate Hardwicke, in complete accord with the provisions

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of the Constitution and specifically with the provisions of

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the Local Government Article.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Clagett.

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DELEGATE CLAGETT: Mr. Chairman, I do not wish

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my questions to be misconstrued as being opposition. I am

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satisfied by the answers, or substantially satisfied by

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the answers given by Delegate Grant and am not opposing this

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amendment.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Wiedemeyer.