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us, do not want anybody to have the power to change the
system whereby we have a Board of Regents at the University
of Maryland and boards at the higher educational level, but
when you say, "as otherwise provided by law", in spite of
what you say your intention may be, do you not realize
there is a rule of construction which might hold that the
latter provision may take precedence over the earlier
provision, and thus the very thing that you are seeking to
do you nullify?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Bard.
DELEGATE BARD: My answer to that would be,
Delegate Sherbow, that if we could separate this whole
concept and vote on that separately as Delegate Scanlan
has stated, then I don't think we would have any problem
at all.
It may well be that after this amendment to the
amendment passes that we might need to look further
at yet another amendment, but at this point I think we have
to face the issue which I have presented.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Sherbow.
DELEGATE SHERBOW: My next question is simply