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understanding it.

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Let me point out that in sections 12, 13, and

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for around 20 or 30 pages of the existing code, there is

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ample provision made for the amendment to existing municipal

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charters. For example, section 12 of article 23(a) provides:

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an amendment of a municipal charter may be initiated by

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the legislative body of a municipal corporation, or by

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petition of qualified voters of a municipal corporation.

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Then the code goes on to spell out at great

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length the procedure. This is absolutely unnecessary. It

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is completely inconsistent with what we have done here this

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evening, and I urge you to defeat this amendment.

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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Barrick.

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DELEGATE BARRICK: Mr. Chairman, it seems to

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me that Delegate Hardwicke has missed the point. It is

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true that it is in 23(a), but that is only the procedure

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and the authority is in 11(3).

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Now, I think the Transitory Committee did a

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wonderful job, but it was very clear in the draft that was

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submitted for the schedule of legislation of local

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government that the municipalities would have the power to