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counties if they want to. This would mean anything that
you can imagine the General Assembly would want to do
so long as they acted by general law. That is point one.
The answer is no to the last question.
The first, I think,Delegate Sickles, that I am
not just making myself clear about it, there are several
things that the General Assembly is to do. As I said
in answer on someone's question earlier, within one year
following the adoption of this Constitution, the General
Assembly shall provide by public general law a choice of
procedures by which an instrument of government of a
county may be proposed.
This means procedures and they can put such
limits as they want on it. This is a choice. This is
what the counties themselves then pick un in selecting
their charters. There is an entirely different thing in
the next sentence.
It is in the sentence after next. The General
Assembly shall provide by law an instrument of government
which shall become effective on July I, 1972 for those
counties which have not previously adopted an instrument