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order t,o preserve the three Congressmen from Baltimore
City and their seniority, that they hd to qet away from
the adjoining territory theory and they would have to
join Talbot County and Southern Anne Arundel, skip the
Chesapeake Bay and go over into the eastern shore, and if
they didn't do that, they would have to take the eastern
shore and ignore natural boundaries and probably come up
into Harford County, or take a slice of Harford County,
in order to get population.
DO you think it well that we freeze language in
that makes it mandatory, that they shall consist of
adjoining territory, when under certain circumstances
we may have to jump across the Chesapeake Bay, jump
across the Susquehanna River, or swim across the
Potomac in order to get brethren?
THE CHAIRMAN; Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAHERi It is obvious, Delegate
Weidemeyer is not pleased bv what the Federal district
court did.
Thn Federal district court was not required to
follow any of these tests, because since 1929 there had