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her signature to the draft constitution.)

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MR. QUILLEN: Delegate B. Miller. (Applause)

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(The Honorable Beatrice Miller, Delegate

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from the Second District, Montgomery County, seated

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at the historic desk from the Old Senate Chamber,

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affixed her signature to the draft constitution.)

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THE PRESIDENT: It grieves me at this point to

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ask the clerk not to call the name of Delegate E. T.

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Miller. He will not be here. He is clinging tenaciously

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to life, but he will not be able to sign.

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Knowing him as I do, I know that the proudest

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moment of his life would have occurred, had he been

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able to walk down that aisle and affix his name to that

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document.

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I would ask all of us to stand and pause a

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moment .

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(The delegates arose and observed a moment of

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silence. )

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MR. QUILLEN: Delegate Mitchell. (Applause)

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(The Honorable Juanita Jackson Mitchell,

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Delegate from the Fourth District, Baltimore City,