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not want these people to go to Baltimore City to become
annexed to Baltimore City even though they want to.
What 7.02 does, it would change this nicture.
Y ou annot change boundary lines, you cannot merge
counties, you cannot alter the boundaries in any other
way, you cannot dissolve a county and specifically you
cannot annex Bethlehem Steel Company to Baltimore City
even though voters in the Baltimore area want to unless
voters in Baltimore County, voting as a county, agreed
to it and voters in the city would also agree. That is
the only way that could be done. That is one element.
That is 7.02.
You could not do any thing else to dissolve
a county. 7.10 is a different thing. It allows the
General Assembly to do pretty much what it can do now
except one thing. The General Assembly, it is doubtful
whether the General Assembly if it established a popularly
elected representative regional government, whether it
could submit it to referendum in the area that is affected