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the power of the General Assembly to act other than

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on a statewide basis are limited to a few very definite

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areas spelled out in Section 3.23, and it was deemed

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proper to permit a local referendum on the exercise

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of a power in one of those eight areas in 3.23 if the

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law was applicable only to one county, but the law's

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application stretched beyond one county. Then it became

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one of statewide import, and obviously this line can't

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be drawn hard and fast. There are gray areas, but, for

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instance, a law providing for some sort of multi-county

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government would be deemed to be one not referrable only

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to the people of the area involved, but a statewide

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question.

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Delegate Case.

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DELEGATE CASE: Mr. Chairman, that is absolutely

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correct, with one slight caveat. You remember that when

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the local government section was before the Committee of

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the Whole and later the Convention, the question of

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referendum on questions involving multi-county governmental

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units was much debated, and you will also recall that we

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adopted an amendment to what is now Section 7.08, which