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rather than getting into the State Central
Committee of the different parties.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Storm.
DELEGATE STORM: I guess in the
urban areas you will have central com-
mittees for the district and not for the
whole county?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: There have
been some considerable changes in State
Central Committee statutes. I looked at
them, and I cannot say that I see any uni-
form method of handling the problem. It
needs a very drastic revision.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are there any fur-
ther questions?
Delegate Storm.
DELEGATE STORM: I guess no fur-
ther questions, sir, just some feelings.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Clagett.
DELEGATE CLAGETT: With reference
back to section 3.17 and the provision that
the General Assembly shall keep a daily
journal, what is the intention of that lan-
guage with respect to that journal being a
current, daily one? In other words, the
second sentence provides for publication as
soon as practicable, but practicable could
be a considerable time delay.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: You are
quite right. In effect, sometimes as much
as a year may go by before the journal is
published. For that reason those who are
interested in actions of the General As-
sembly would find the transcript of its de-
bates most helpful to them, rather than
going to the State Archives or King Broth-
ers, or wherever they have customarily
gone in the past.
DELEGATE CLAGETT: What would
be the reason, if any, for not requiring
that the daily journal be a current one, in
order that you can accomplish your pur-
pose of informing the interested parties
of the status and progress of bills before
the General Assembly?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Well, I
said when I was commenting on section
3.17 that I was going to offer an amend-
ment which would provide that the daily
journal shall be open to public inspection
at all reasonable times, the idea being that
it would be a current journal.
DELEGATE CLAGETT: I would be
most happy if you would include the word
"current," so that there could be no ques-
tion about that.
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DELEGATE GALLAGHER: All right.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Adkins.
DELEGATE ADKINS: Mr. Committee
Chairman, I would like to direct your at-
tention to the language in section 3.02,
specifically on line 17, and ask you if the
words "adjoining territory" mean adjoin-
ing land area?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Yes.
DELEGATE ADKINS: Would you ob-
ject to an amendment which substituted
the words "land area" in lieu of territory?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: I would
not, no.
DELEGATE ADKINS: You would not
object?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: I would not
object, and I think that is the feeling of
the Committee.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Adkins.
DELEGATE ADKINS: The second
question I would like to ask the chairman
relates to line 24. You have indicated that
the words "substantially equal" in the
words of the Committee mean not more
than —
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: I should
have said the deviation which is the high-
est or lowest deviation from the mean shall
not exceed 15 percent. For example, 7.5
below and 7.5 above, or 6 below and 9
above.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Adkins.
DELEGATE ADKINS: If the Supreme
Court should consider a greater flexibility,
would you consider this more restrictive?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Yes, I
would consider it more restrictive than the
Supreme Court.
DELEGATE ADKINS: The Committee
would not accept the maximum provided by
the Supreme Court for constitutional guide-
lines for the Maryland Constitution?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: I think the
Committee might have, Delegate Adkins,
if the Court had ever expressed itself
definitively; but you search the literature
without success.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Adkins.
DELEGATE ADKINS: I have not at-
tempted to do that.
In the event that they should, and it
seems to me inevitable at some point they
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