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by Delegate Miller.

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In that case, I might suggest that we might

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have to go through the whole thing and say "counties,

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including Baltimore City" unless we put a general saving

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clause at the beginning of it. We have used "counties"

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innumerable times through the Schedule and included Baltimore

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City without saying "counties, including Baltimore City".

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Hardwicke.

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DELEGATE HARDWICKE: We had the same problem

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with the phrase "prior Constitution". On page 69, line

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52, we used that phrase and it is not defined in the

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Schedule of Legislation. It is defined in the Transitional

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Provisions. If this raises a problem, I would have given

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a contrary opinion from that which you gave, Mr. President,

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that the definition in the Constitution would carry over,

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but if there is any question about it, then I would suggest

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that we include two definitions in the Schedule.

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One definition would define "counties" as

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including Baltimore City, and the other one would define

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"prior Constitutions".

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THE PRESIDENT: The Chair would concur in your