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for Dale Adkins to show the great admiration Delegate Finch

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has for Dale Adkins.

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Dale, will you please come up?

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(A gavel was presented to the Honorable E. Dale

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Adkins, Vice Chairman, Committee on the Executive Branch.)

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(Applause)

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THE PRESIDENT: Now, it gives me great pleasure

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to present one of these gavels to that other great Eastern

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Shore Delegate, Delegate Tawes.

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(A gavel was presented to the Honorable J.

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Millard Tawes, Honorary President of the Maryland Consti-

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tutional Convention.) (Applause)

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HONORARY PRESIDENT TAWES: I was wondering

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whether I was going to get one. I didn't know. (Applause)

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We all want to thank Delegate Walter Finch

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for his thoughtfulness in this ceremony of presenting these

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gavels to all of us, and we want to thank Delegate E. J.

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Clarke for the work that he has done in making these presen-

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tations possible on this occasion.

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So now, Mr. President, we return the rostrum

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to you. (Applause)