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in your recommendation a resident requirement, are you?
DELEGATE GILCHRIST: No.
DELEGATE SOLLINS: Four delegates could come
from one county and none from another, under your proposal?
DELEGATE GILCHRIST: I think you would find it
very difficult to get in the upper area of the Shore a
sufficient majority in any one county to elect people from
that county for four slots. I believe that there is
a built-in residual vote in each of the counties that
will in the course of nature take care of a good bit of
this.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Sollins.
DELEGATE SOLLINS: If we had 144 delegates in
the house in 1970, how many counties would have a delegate?
DELEGATE GILCHRIST: In all probability every
county would have a delegate. I do not by this pretend
to say that every county will have a delegate.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Sollins.
DELEGATE SOLLINS: As I see the figures, and I
want to get clarified, if I am wrong, Delegate Gilchrist,
at 144 members in the House, eight counties will still |