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in answer to your question. Delegate Bamberger.
DELEGATE CLARK: Delegate Fox.
DELEGATE FOX: Mr. Chairman, I rise to speak in
support of Delegate Clagett's amendment. I think if we
allow the General Assembly to say that one municipality
has sovereign immunity or a big one does and a little one
doesn't, we are back in the morass of local legislation.
A municipality could waive its own sovereignty if they
wanted to do so and I see nothing wrong with that. I urge
you not to get us back into the morass of local legis-
lation which we would be in unless we adopt Delegate
Clagett's aaendment,
DELEGATE CLARK: Delegate Clagett.
DELEGATE CLAGETT: Mr. Chairman, I believe the
point has been made and I hope that it has been one which
has been fully digested. What the omission of these four
words would be is that the General Assembly could provide
that Prince Georges County shall be sued to the full limits
of whatever the ability to pay of that subdivision may be,
whereas Saint Mary's County or Baltimore City would not
be subject to suit at all. I think