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Are there any announcements by com-
mittee chairmen?
Delegate Mudd.
DELEGATE MUDD: Mr. Chairman,
may I announce that the Judicial Branch
Committee meeting on transitory provisions
previously scheduled for 9:00 A.M. tomor-
row morning will not be held at 9:00 A.M.,
but during the luncheon recess tomorrow,
instead.
THE CHAIRMAN: Any other announce-
ments by committee chairmen?
Delegate Penniman.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Mr. Chair-
man, I would remind the members of the
Committee on Style that we will meet at
7:30 P.M. this evening.
THE PRESIDENT: Any other an-
nouncements?
Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: Mr. President,
it will be necessary for the Committee on
the Executive Branch to meet at 9:00 A.M.
tomorrow morning to consider committee
amendments to the executive article, made
necessary by the amendments that were
adopted today to the report of the Com-
mittee on the Executive Branch.
THE PRESIDENT: Are there any fur-
ther announcements by committee chair-
men?
The Chair recognizes Delegate Della.
DELEGATE DELLA: Mr. President,
the Committee on the Legislative Branch
will meet at 9:15 A.M. tomorrow morning.
THE PRESIDENT: Any other an-
nouncements by committee chairmen?
(There was no response.)
Are there any other announcements by
any other delegates?
Delegate Bard.
DELEGATE BARD: Mr. Chairman, I
should like to announce that the Chairman
of the Legislative Branch Committee is be-
ing honored tonight and being given the
Brotherhood Award by the National Con-
ference of Christians and Jews. This is in-
deed a very great honor for a delegate to
this Convention.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Are there any other
announcements ?
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(There was no response.)
THE PRESIDENT: The Chair recog-
nizes Delegate Powers.
Any delegates not present at roll call
this afternoon desire to indicate their pres-
ence now may do so on supplemental roll
call.
The Clerk will record the supplemental
roll call.
DELEGATE POWERS: Mr. President,
I move we adjourn until 10:00 A.M. tomor-
row morning.
THE PRESIDENT: Before putting the
motion, the Chair desires to remind you
that tomorrow is Wednesday, and in ac-
cordance with the announcements you will
have a long day ahead of you, with an
evening session tomorrow.
All in favor signify by saying Aye; con-
trary, No. The Ayes have it. It is so
ordered.
(Whereupon, at 5:55 P.M. the Convention
was recessed to reconvene at 10:00 A.M. on
Wednesday, November 29, 1967.)
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PLENARY SESSION
NOVEMBER 29, 1967—10:00 A.M.
PRESIDENT H. VERNON ENEY,
PRESIDING
THE PRESIDENT: The Convention will
please come to order.
The invocation this morning will be of-
fered by the Reverend Robert L. Briggs,
of the Arlington Presbyterian Church, in
Towson.
Reverend Briggs.
REVEREND BRIGGS: Shall we bow
our heads?
Our Heavenly Father and our God, it is
with a deep sense of gratitude to Thee and
a sense of our unworthiness and inade-
quacy that we come now to the beginning
of a new day, into Thy presence, asking
Thee, our Father, that we may have Thy
mind and Thy wisdom helping us ever to
remember that this is the day which the
Lord hath made. We will rejoice and be
glad in it, accepting this day, our Father,
as good stewards of Thine, as a time in
which we shall serve Thee and Thy people
of this State acceptably.
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