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THE CHAIRMAN: Are you ready for the question?
Delegate Churchill Murray.
DELEGATE C. MURRAY: Nothing that has come to
our attention since the beginning of this Convention
has concerned me more than the pain, the injury and often-
times the injustice that has resulted from eminent domain.
In a country that is growing as ours is, and as
ours will, it is inevitable; on the other hand, the harm
from it is widespread. I had no idea until we had begun
hearing witnesses on this subject, slum clearance in
connection with roads in the cities, that many times the
owners are living in houses that aren't worth much and that
aren't worth enough for them to go out and replace them.
I have been in the state and all over the
state and I feel very badly. I could weep were I an actor
for the millions and millions and millions of dollars that
the adoption of this would cost the state of Maryland,
but I do believe that I can answer the question as to
how much it would cost.
It would cost exactly the sum total of what
these individual people are losing individually now