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DELEGATE WHEATLEY: Would the
words "adjoining territory" be subject to
the interpretation that was given yesterday
as applies to land area, or not land area.
I am thinking in particular of the third
congressional district of Baltimore City,
which jumps the Patapsco River, as T re-
call.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: I do not
think it would disturb the form of the third
congressional district, even though there is
some water division between the district.
There is also a touching land section of the
district, as well, as I understand it.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Wheatley.
DELEGATE WHEATLEY: I do not
have the map before me. However, it seems
to me there are some segments of it that
are entirely separated by water. I am not
certain of that.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Wheatley,
the Chair again suggests to you that there
is no body of water in the State of Mary-
land that is not in a county. The lines
usually run through the center of the
rivers.
Delegate Wheatley.
DELEGATE WHEATLEY: Mr. Chair-
man, I do not quite know what you mean
by that, because we have a legislative dis-
trict, that if we use rivers probably it
would be separated into four sections,
rivers and creeks depending upon how you
define them.
Again, I am without a map and 1 would
like to have a definite answer to this, if I
might, before we vote on this question.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: I am sorry,
Mr. Chairman, I was looking at a map
when you addressed the last question to me.
THE CHAIRMAN: He said he would
like to have a definite answer to his previ-
ous question.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Well, 1
would expect in all probability territory
can be both land and water. I do not know
whether you may have all the water prob-
lem in the third congressional district. I do
not have that knowledge. I do not have the
Congressional district map before me.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Wheatley,
do you have further questions?
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DELEGATE WHEATLEY: Mr. Chair-
man, I do not, if he cannot answer it at
this time.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Henderson,
do you have a question of the sponsor?
DELEGATE HENDERSON: Yres, I do.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Henderson.
DELEGATE HENDERSON: If the con-
gressional district can extend across the
Chesapeake Bay, Anne Arundel County is
hooked up to the Eastern Shore. It is di-
vided like all Gaul, into three parts, as you
may know. Would that be prevented under
this amendment?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Delegate
Henderson, as I read line 8 it says, "due
regard shall be given to natural boundaries
of political subdivisions."
The prior sentence, "each district shall
consist of adjoining territory." Judge Hen-
derson, I cannot say with certainty, but of
course this constitutional provision would
not be operative until after the decennial
census of 1970, which would be 1972.
It could not in my opinion be used to in-
validate any existing district even if it
were in conflict.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Rybczyn-
ski, do you have a question?
DELEGATE RYBCZYNSKI: No, sir. I
was going to participate in that business
about the third congressional district of
Baltimore City.
However, apparently that has been an-
swered.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Case, do
you have a question of the sponsor?
DELEGATE CASE: Yes, sir.
THE CHAIRMAN: State the question.
DELEGATE CASE: Delegate Gallagher,
who is going to do the redistricting? In
the other section, of course, where we are
dealing with the General Assembly, a fairly
elaborate plan is asked to be done.
How is it to be accomplished under this
provision?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gallagher?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: In my
opinion, the only legal way for congres-
sional districting to be done is to be done
by the General Assembly of Maryland, the
legislature itself, and no other body.
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