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have dealt with a great many of them, particularly charters

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of small communities on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where

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the charters themselves either provide for no method of

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amendment at all, or provid e for a method that is

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so cumbersome as to make it almost impossible.

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These communities from time to time need

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charter amendments to authorize the issuance of bonds, to

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make needed public improvements. We do this in our office

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all the time, draw up charter amendments to permit the

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issuance of bonds.

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Now, if in my judgment this section does not

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go in, and the legislature of course would not have — and

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the legislature wouldn't act in this area, then it would

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mean that these municipalities would be without a method of

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obtaining needful funds for capital improvements that they

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otherwise would have.

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I know of no bond counsel in the State who would

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pass a bond issue for a municipality on an amendment absent

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a provision of this character until after the legislature

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could act in 1969, and I think this would be an emergency,

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and I think therefore the section does not fit the