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people and businesses in the years to come, for in Marylanc
they have the added right: Rights in the Market Place.
THE CHAIRMAN: Do any delegates desire to speak in
opposition to the recommendation?
Delegate Marvin Smith?
DELEGATE M. SMITH: Mr. Chairman, I take a back
seat to no one when it comes to protecting the rights
of the consumer, aid even while we have been in session here,
Retail Installment
sir, I have used the tool of the Maryland/Sales Act of
1941 to protect consumers, but I submit to you, sir, that
when we write this into the Constitution, we are doing
the same thing that the Constitutional Convention of 1867
did when it put such things as the Wreckmaster for Worcester
County into the Constitution.
We are holding out a promise to people which
may not necessarily be kept. As has been indicated by the
Chairman of the Committee, this grant, this provision will
not increase one iota the nower of the General Assembly.
The General Assembly has ample power to legislate on
the subject. The General Assembly should legislate on the
subject. I am distressed by the comment of the Chairman